Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok, a professor in the Department of English, has published ten collections of poetry, including, most recently, Hold, for which he has been nominated for the 2019 Library of Virginia Literary Award for poetry.

Hicok’s first book of poetry, The Legend of Light, received the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. Other poetry collections include Elegy Owed, a finalist for the 2014 Library of Virginia Literary Award; Animal Soul, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Clumsy Living, winner of the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt national award for poetry from the Library of Congress.

His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and The American Poetry Review, as well as in eight volumes of The Best American Poetry and six times in the Pushcart Prize anthology.

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2003, Hicok received his master of fine arts degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.