Literary Fictionist,
English Professor,
Director of the Maslow
Family Graduate Program
in Creative Writing
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“Beautifully and honestly wrought . . . a stunning portrayal of one man’s journey to redemption and transformation. This is ultimately a story of kindness and forgiveness despite the misfirings of our ever-yearning human hearts. A gorgeous and unforgettable debut.”

Kathy Fish, author of Wild Life

“[A] glowing set of stories, a book that reads like late night messages sent from a friend. This is an honest look at a man moving from punishing bad faith toward something he finally hopes is good.”

Ron Carlson, author of The Signal

“This book is every single thing I want when I read: compassionate, hopeful, and beautifully written. David Hicks is a first-rate storyteller.”

Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade
“What happens when a man risks everything in search of a real home and big love? David Hicks shares the answer in White Plains, a thrilling and thoughtful take on what it means to live life to the fullest.”
Sophfronia Scott, author of Unforgivable Love

“In David Hicks’s captivating debut, an English professor realizes he can no longer stand to live a life of quiet desperation. Comic and tender by turns, White Plains is a big-hearted novel about awakening—and reawakening—to love.”

Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks

Finalist, 2018 Colorado Book Awards
Top Ten Books of 2017 – Westword Magazine
Arapahoe Libraries’ 2018 “Village Read”

WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF

David Hicks

David is the author of the debut novel, White Plains (Conundrum Press/Bower House Books), a 2018 finalist for the Colorado Book Award, #1 of “Ten Great Books by Colorado Authors” (Westword, 2018), and Arapahoe County’s 2018 “Village Read.” Excerpts from the novel have been published as short stories in Glimmer Train, Colorado Review, Specs, Saranac Review, South Dakota Review, and other journals. His children’s book, The Magic Ticket, will be published in July 2024 by Fulcrum Books.

David lives with his wife Cynthia in northeast Pennsylvania, where he directs the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. He is represented by Victoria Skurnick of the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.

PRAISE FOR WHITE PLAINS

“What happens when a man risks everything in search of a real home and big love? David Hicks shares the answer in White Plains, a thrilling and thoughtful take on what it means to live life to the fullest.”
Sophfronia Scott, author of Unforgivable Love
“In David Hicks’s captivating debut, an English professor realizes he can no longer stand to live a life of quiet desperation. Comic and tender by turns, White Plains is a big-hearted novel about awakening—and reawakening—to love.”
Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks
“…a book that reads like late night messages sent from a friend. This is an honest look at a man moving from punishing bad faith toward something he finally hopes is good.”
Ron Carlson, author of The Signal

“He shivered violently, noting the water’s depth, its darkness. But he kept going, with smooth, careful breast strokes, the icy water bathing his body. He imagined the cells of his skin hydrating and awakening.”

WHITE PLAINS

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White Plains

A NOVEL IN STORIES

White Plains is available to order. To keep up with news about David’s debut novel and the dates and locations of his book tour, join his newsletter at the bottom of this page.

“On first glance, David Hicks’ witty and melancholy White Plains is a novel of the academic life, in the tradition of Lodge, Amis and McCarthy, and it deserves a place in that most excellent tradition. But White Plains exceeds this subgenre and rewards us with dynamic shifts in point of view that reveal an unsparing and original look at aging through a literary life and events that seem to have a mind of their own. Hicks writes spot on spots of time covering thirty years: St. Marks, Shea Stadium, Creede, Colorado. . . . momentary stays against confusion and concentric circles of diminishing expectations. With characteristic and devastating restraint, we’re asked, “How many chances does a man get [does anyone get] to set his life straight.” The answer: read this extraordinary novel. ”
David Lazar, author of I'll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphor
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