Featured Mentor: Michael Hickins

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Michael Hickins! Michael Hickins is the award-winning author of The Silk Factory: Finding Threads of My Family’s True Holocaust Story. A former editor at The Wall Street Journal and author of the influential short story collection The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing (Alfred A. Knopf, Dzanc Books), he is also the author of an earlier 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. The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing has been used as course material at the Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program.

“What excites me most about the mentorship program,” Michael shared, “is the opportunity to meet writers who are just starting their journey, and to offer them encouragement and support.”

The Years by Annie Ernaux came to mind when Michael was asked to share a book he read and loved.

Click here to sign up for a mentorship from Michael!

Check out both of Michael’s funny and compelling books, I Lived in France and So Can You and The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing.