Carol Siyahi Hicks

Carol Siyahi Hicks is a journalist, a former managing editor of the national, prize-winning literary magazine, The Antioch Review, a former co-editor of Fiction International, and most recently, communications vice president for The Dayton Foundation. She has won many national and regional awards, most recently from Writer's Digest for her poem, "The Wearing." Her work has been included in essay collections, and nature columns. Her book, "Gifts from the Garden," has sold hundreds of copies. She has two recently published novels, including Five Stars from Readers' Favorite and the just-published "Where Rivers Merge," set in China in 2000.

She lives on twenty-seven acres in the Ohio countryside with her husband and the land that she loves.