Patrick Hicks is the author of eight books, most recently The Collector of Names: Stories (Schaffner Press, 2015), The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard (Steerforth/Random House, 2014), and Adoptable (Salmon Poetry, 2014). He serves as the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University and is on faculty at the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.