Patrick Hicks, Ph.D., M.A.
Patrick Hicks, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor of English; Writer-in-Residence
English & Journalism Department
Education
Ph.D. in Irish Literature, 2000, University of Sussex (England), M.A. in Irish Writing, 1995, Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), M.A. in Literature, 1994, DePaul University, B.A. in English, 1992, Saint John's University
Biography
Dr. Patrick Hicks is the writer-in-residence at Augustana University where he teaches courses on creative writing, Irish literature and such honors courses as Great Britain and the Great War and Eleutheria: Freedom and Literature. He is the author, most recently of Across the Lake. His other works include In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program, published in 2020 by SFA Press/Texas A&M Press, The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard, published by Steerforth/Random House, a short story collection, The Collector of Names, published by Schaffner Press, as well as six poetry collections, most recently Adoptable and This London, both from Ireland's prestigious press, Salmon Poetry. He also edited A Harvest of Words, which was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, The National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, The Huffington Post and many others. He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, has won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, been a notable mention in Best American Stories, finalist for the Steinberg Essay Prize, and his first novel was one of only 20 books chosen for National Reading Group Month. He is also the host of Poetry from Studio 47, a broadcast weekly on the South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) Radio network and Prairie Public Radio network in North Dakota. To his total astonishment, Hicks was a finalist for an Emmy in 2017, and he has received individual artist grants from the Bush Artist Foundation, the Loft Literary Center and the South Dakota Arts Council. He was also the recipient of the 2018 Frederick C. Kohlmeyer Teaching Award from Augustana. Before earning a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex in England. Hicks lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Spain for many years. A former visiting fellow at Oxford and dual citizen of Ireland and the U.S., he gives fiction and poetry readings all across the nation. His website is patrickhicks.org.