Patrick Hicks (born 1970 in Charlotte, North Carolina ) is an Irish-American novelist, poet, and Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University.
From Stillwater, Minnesota, much of his fiction is an examination of The Holocaust, but his poetry often discusses his experiences in Northern Ireland, Germany, and Spain.
Patrick Hicks is the author of The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard,[1] which was published by Steerforth/Random House to critical and popular acclaim, and was one of only 20 books chosen for National Reading Group Month.
His work has appeared in some of the most vital literary journals in America, including Ploughshares,[3] Glimmer Train,[4] The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Guernica, Salon, Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, NPR, and The PBS NewsHour, among many others.
He is the host and curator of the popular radio show, Poetry from Studio 47, which airs on affiliate NPR stations.