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Bob Hicok (born in Grand Ledge, Michigan) is a poet known for his restless, inventive, and often darkly comic engagement with American life, language, and loss. He has worked as an automotive die designer and currently teaches at Virginia Tech. His collections include Animal Soul (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), winner of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), and Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon, 2013). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poem responding to the Virginia Tech shooting, where he teaches, is widely anthologized.