Patrick Hicks is the author of nearly ten books, including The Collector of Names, 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 first novel was selected for National Reading Group Month. He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, been a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Dzanc Short Story Collection Competition, and the Gival Press Novel Award. He has won a number of grants, including ones from the Bush Artist Foundation, the Loft Literary Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was recently a finalist for an Emmy, and he is the radio host of Poetry from Studio 47. 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 Sierra Nevada University.