Great Plains Writers' Tour with Patrick Hicks & Jim Reese

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John Badley talks with Patrick Hicks and Jim Reese about researching and their new books. 

Patrick Hicks is the author of over ten books, including The Collector of Names, This London, Adoptable, and In the Shadow of Dora—he also wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed novel, The Commandant of Lubizec. His work has appeared on NPR, The PBS Newshour, American Life in Poetry, and his first novel held company among only 20 books selected for National Reading Group Month. After living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. His latest novel is Across the Lake.

Jim Reese’s latest book is Coming to a Neighborhood near You—the Repercussions of Crime and Punishment (Potomac Books Sept. 2025), which draws on his extensive work with both the Federal Bureau of Prisons and South Dakota Department of Corrections. He spent fourteen years in residency for the National Endowment for the Arts’ interagency initiative with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, where he established Yankton Federal Prison Camp’s first creative writing and publishing workshop. Reese is the author of eight books, including the nonfiction collection Bone Chalk, and has received several awards for his writing and public service. For more information visit: www.jimreese.org