Bob Hicok

Denise Royal

Bob Hicok’s ninth collection, Hold, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2018. A two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, he’s also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and eight Pushcart Prizes, and his poems have been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of The Best American Poetry. He teaches at Virginia Tech.

Awards and Honors

Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Library of Congress

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award

Pushcart Prize

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship