Bob Hicok worked for years as an automotive die designer before earning an MFA from Vermont College in 2004. Born in Grand Ledge, Michigan, he teaches at Virginia Tech. This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) won the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and Animal Soul (Invisible Cities Press, 2001) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, along with three Pushcart Prizes.
