Thanks to everyone who came out for my reading and bought books at The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. The room was packed, and people asked great questions.

Thanks to Lauren Mallet and Purdue University for hosting the Midwestern Friendly Reading Series last weekend. All the readers were great, and I had a really good time.

The latest issue of Pleiades has a great story by Brenda Peynado, and a very kind review of Electricity and Other Dreams by Jennifer Schomburg Kanke. Here's an excerpt from the review: "The genre and the literary blend together without the seams showing as Hicks works his magic. Wether you want to think of him as Charles … Continue reading Review in Pleiades 35.1

I'm thrilled to be reading at The Louisville Conference on February 27th. Hope to see you there!

Thanks so much to Kim Davis for giving Electricity and Other Dreams an end of year shout-out in Lit Genius.

Huge thanks to Judge Robert Coover, all the readers, and the creative writing program at the University of Louisville for selecting my story, "Flight of the Crow Boys," as this year's winner of the Calvino Prize. This is a really big deal to me. I think I've been entering this contest every year for five … Continue reading Calvino Prize in Fiction

I really enjoyed designing flyers and participating in UC's graduate reading series this fall. Can't wait for more awesome fiction, poetry, and essay readings in the spring.

Jilly Dreadful is putting together a reading list of science fiction fairy tales. How cool! Thank you, Jilly, for giving a shoutout to my story, "A Famine of Music." Catherynne M. Valente is awesome. Another thing I might suggest for a SciFi fairy tales list: Ben Loory's Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day.

Thanks so much to the editors and readers of Witness for publishing my story, "Flight of the Crow Boys," in their Winter issue. I'm really fond of this story, and I'm glad it found a good home.

My review of Jean Thompson's new collection is up now at Chicago Tribune.