About Patrick
Patrick Hicks is the author of over ten books, including The Collector of Names, Adoptable, and This London—he also wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed novel, The Commandant of Lubizec, which was published by Steerforth/Random House. His second book about he Holocaust, In the Shadow of Dora, was a finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition—this is for novels that hold exceptional promise to be made into a movie. His latest novel, Across the Lake, takes place in the only all-female concentration camp in the Third Reich.
His work has appeared in such journals and magazines as Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Salon, Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonweal, Huffington Post, Guernica, Fourth Genre, Utne Reader, and many others.
He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, he was recently a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Dzanc Short Story Competition, the Gival Press Novel Award, and the Steinberg Essay Prize. His poetry has appeared on NPR, The PBS NewsHour, and American Life in Poetry. His first novel held company among only 20 books selected for National Reading Group Month and it was listed as a Top Pick for First Year College Programs. A winner of the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, he is also the recipient of a number of grants and fellowships, including awards from the Bush Artist Foundation, the South Dakota Arts Council, the Loft Literary Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A former Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he was recently a finalist for an Emmy and is the radio host of Poetry from Studio 47.
A dual-citizen of Ireland and America, he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member of the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno, Lake Tahoe. He has lived in Northern Ireland, England, Germany, and Spain, but has returned to his Midwestern roots.
He holds degrees from Saint John’s University, DePaul University, Queen’s University of Belfast, and the University of Sussex in England. He teaches courses on creative writing, Irish literature, and Holocaust Studies.
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