Biography
Bob Hicok is a poet born in Michigan, the prize-winning author of ten collections. For years he ran his own automotive die design business while also publishing four books of poetry. In 2002, he began teaching at Virginia Tech University, and earned an MFA from Vermont College in 2004. “His judicious eye imbues even the dreadful with beauty and meaning,” wrote a New York Times reviewer. In Water Look Away, his most recent collection, the poet writes about marriage—a wife who commits suicide, a husband left behind. This Clumsy Living, which the Los Angeles Times called “smart, honest and powerfully inventive,” won the Library of Congress 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbit award. Hicok has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and been awarded several Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Virginia.