Patrick Hicks is the author of books including Adoptable, The Commandant of Lubizec and 2023’s Across the Lake. His work has appeared on NPR, PBS NewsHour, and American Life in Poetry. Hicks has won grants from the Bush Foundation and The National Endowment for the Humanities, and he was a finalist for an Emmy. He is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University and a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe.

Featured title: Across the Lake: A Novel of the Holocaust and Ravensbruck

Website: https://patrickhicks.org/

PATRICK’S EVENTS:

• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 11:30 a.m. – WORKSHOP: Writing Fiction – Brookings Public Library, Cooper Room A – TICKET REQUIRED
• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings
• Saturday, Sept 21 @ 10:15 a.m. – Greater Minnesota; A Work in Progress – Brookings Public Library, Cooper Rooms A & B
• Saturday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings

View the full schedule here!