Patrick Hicks
Encyclopedia
Patrick Hicks is an American poet
, and Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College
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. Much of his fiction takes place in Minnesota, but his poetry often discusses his experiences in Northern Ireland, Germany, and Spain. Hicks is a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. He holds degrees from Saint John's University, DePaul University, Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), and the University of Sussex (England).
Aside from being a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, his stories have been shortlisted for Best American Stories, and he has won a variety of grants to support his work. He recently won a grant from the Bush Foundation to support work on his first novel, which is about Auschwitz.
His work has appeared in scores of international publications including, Ploughshares, The Utne Reader, Commonweal, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, and Nimrod.
He currently lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College
Augustana College (South Dakota)
Augustana College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The campus makes the school the largest private university in South Dakota...
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Life
He was raised in Stillwater, MinnesotaStillwater, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 15,143 people, 5,797 households, and 4,115 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,340.0 people per square mile . There were 5,926 housing units at an average density of 915.7 per square mile...
. Much of his fiction takes place in Minnesota, but his poetry often discusses his experiences in Northern Ireland, Germany, and Spain. Hicks is a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. He holds degrees from Saint John's University, DePaul University, Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), and the University of Sussex (England).
Aside from being a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, his stories have been shortlisted for Best American Stories, and he has won a variety of grants to support his work. He recently won a grant from the Bush Foundation to support work on his first novel, which is about Auschwitz.
His work has appeared in scores of international publications including, Ploughshares, The Utne Reader, Commonweal, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, and Nimrod.
He currently lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Chapbooks
- Draglines (2006)
- The Kiss That Saved My Life (2007)
- Traveling Through History (2005)
Non-fiction
- Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past - a critical retrospective of the work of Irish-Canadian novelist Brian MooreBrian Moore (novelist)Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...
Poetry
- Finding the Gossamer (Salmon Poetry, 2008).
- This London (Salmon Poetry, 2010).
- A Harvest of Words, Editor (Center for Western Studies Press, 2010).