David Hicks

David Hicks, PhD, a first-generation college student, earned his doctorate in American Literature at NYU and taught at Pace University in New York as well as Regis University in Denver, where he co-founded and co-directed the MFA in Creative Writing. In his forties he shifted his work from academic to creative, first publishing short stories, then collecting and rearranging them as a novel-in-stories, White Plains, published by Conundrum Press (now Bower House Books) in 2017. White Plains was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, Arapahoe Libraries 2018 “Village Read,” and Westword Magazine’s #1 book by Colorado authors. His children’s book, The Magic Ticket, is forthcoming (July 2024) by Fulcrum Books; and his second novel, The Gospel According to Danny, will be published by Vine Leaves Press in 2025.