Patrick Hicks is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer and This London—he is also the editor of A Harvest of Words, which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has appeared in some of the most vital literary journals in America, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Missouri Review, Tar River Poetry, New Ohio Review, Salon, Utne Reader, Poetry East, Commonweal, VQR, Natural Bridge, 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 Collection Competition, and the Gival Press Novel Award. He has won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, been a notable mention in Best American Stories, and he is the recipient of a number of grants, including one from the Bush Artist Foundation. A former Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College and, during the summer months, you’ll usually find him poking around Europe. He has lived in Northern Ireland, England, Germany, and Spain, but has returned to his Midwestern roots. When not writing, he enjoys watching thunderstorms roll across the prairie with his British wife and he is a sucker for playing in the backyard with his three-year-old son, who was adopted from South Korea.

A Harvest of Words (Center for Western Studies, 2010), A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry (Center for Western Studies, 2010), This London (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2010), Finding the Gossamer (Salmon Poetry, 2008), The Kiss That Saved My Life (Red Dragonfly Press, 2007), Draglines (Lone Willow Press, 2006), Traveling Through History (Moon Pie Press, 2005)

Cimarron Review, Cold Mountain Review, Dalhousie Review, Glimmer Train, Louisville Review, National Catholic Reporter, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Southern Indiana Review, Speakeasy, Tar River Poetry Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Normal School