Patty Hickman

PATRICIA HICKMAN is an award‐winning novelist whose works receive consistently good reviews from national reviewers like Publishers' Weekly. She first studied creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and then went on to receive her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. PATRICIA writes for major publishers and her sixteenth novel, The Pirate Queen, was on a SIBA bestseller list, the Pulpwood Queens. If upmarket fiction can be branded, her stories attempt to possess the dreams of southern culture-"our village secrets, our passion for idioms, our spiritual passages, and our companionable pilgrimages." www.patriciahickman.com