Bob Hicok is the author of The Legend of Light, Animal Soul Plus Shipping and Insomnia Diary (2004). Winner of a National Education Association Fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes, he has published poems in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Poetry and Ploughshares, and his poems have appeared in two issues of Best American Poetry. The Legend of Light was an American Library Association Booklist Notable Book of the Year.
Bob Hicok is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.