Michael Hickins

Author of the award-winning memoir The Silk Factory: Finding Threads of My Family’s True Holocaust Story, MIchael Hickins is a former editor at The Wall Street Journal and the author of the influential short story collection The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing (Alfred A. Knopf, Dzanc Books). He is also the author of a previous memoir, I Lived in France and So Can You (Dzanc Books, 2019). He earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University School of the Arts, and was a McDowell Colony residency grantee. The Silk Factory was awarded the 2023 International Impact Book Awards for Memoirs.