Patrick Hicks

Patrick Hicks is the author of over ten books, including The Collector of Names, In the Shadow of Dora, Adoptable, and This London—he also wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed novel, The Commandant of Lubizec. His work has appeared on NPR, The PBS Newshour, American Life in Poetry, and his work has appeared in some of the most prominent literary journals in North America. He has won a number of grants, including ones from the Bush Artist Foundation, The Loft Literary Center, the South Dakota Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. After living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. His latest novel is Across the Lake.