Carol Siyahi Hicks

Carol Siyahi Hicks is the author of the book, Gifts from the Garden, a philiosophical and joyful look at gardening, nature, and life. The author's intricate and poetic descriptions of her family's gardens and their life on their southwestern Ohio land probe the subtleties of everyday experience to unearth profound questions and observations about our relationship to nature and to life. Gifts offers the listener a very personal and unique view of nature that will speak to nature lovers, gardeners, and even those who believe they are neither.

Carol is a journalist and previously served as vice president for communications and marketing for The Dayton Foundation. She is a former managing editor of The Antioch Review and a former co-editor of Fiction International. The author of hundreds of articles, poems, and short stories, she has won many national and regional awards for her writing and communications work. Her most recent award was from Writer's Digest for her poem, "The Wearing."

Her work has been included in two essay collections, and she currently authors a column on gardens and nature for Dayton Magazine. Her book, Gifts from the Garden, recently has been produced as an audio book, available on cdbaby.com. Her book is available on Amazon.com. She lives on 27 acres in the Ohio countryside with her husband and the land that she loves.