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Micah Dean Hicks

@micahdeanhicks.com

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Author. Academic. NEA Fellow. New book VULTURE GOLD out now! Lover of stories and story games. He/Him. Never AI. Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer. micahdeanhicks.com

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 01/09/2026

My book VULTURE GOLD is out today! Available anywhere you get books. bookshop.org/p/books/vult...

The book, Vulture Gold, lying on black feathers and surrounded by lit golden candles. The book cover shows, in sepia tones, a flock of ravens flying down with their mouths open.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 12/06/2026

A short, spooky story from my upcoming collection VULTURE GOLD is out today in COMP. Here's a taste: "I was only a girl when Aurelia died. My twin, my heart. We shared the same gold-brown eyes, the same tense smile, slept so close that our wild honey hair would tangle and weave together.

Cover image of the book VULTURE GOLD. A flock of crows falling toward the ground, eyes wide. The colors black, white, and gold tones.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 19/05/2026

Happy pub day to @mollytanzer.bsky.social for her latest book, And Side by Side They Wander! "An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong?" bookshop.org/p/books/and-...

Cover art for Molly Tanzer's novel AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 16/10/2025

I have a new story, "Dirge and Gleam," up today at @lightspeedmagazine.com! Queer wizard school, ghosts, and a terrifying spider girl who just might be lonely. There's also a short interview and an audio version. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dirg...

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 01/04/2025

They got Orville Peck in this tarot deck.

A tarot card depicting a masked figure with a cowboy hat, dressed in black and gold.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 05/02/2025

Two amazing story collections I'm reading right now: The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise and Tender by Sofia Samatar.

Cover of AC Wise's book The Ghost Sequences. Cover art depicts a top-down view of two women sitting in white dresses reading cards. The arrangement of the figures looks like a skull.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 24/01/2025

I started playing KORIKO: A MAGICAL YEAR with my daughter, and it’s been a lot of fun. It’s basically KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE the RPG.

The cover art of KORIKO showing a young witch with a pointy, star-covered hat riding towards a city on a motorcycle. A cat perches on the seat behind her.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 05/08/2024

Congrats to @brendapeynado.bsky.social!

A list of the editors' best science fiction and fantasy books of August from Amazon.com, including Brenda Peynado's upcoming book Time's Agent.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 27/06/2024

Just finished Ann Leckie's TRANSLATION STATE somehow in spite of having children. Loved the characters. I can't get enough of this setting. The presger are so bloody and terrifying and weird. A lot like my toddlers! Loved to see the return of the sentient ship AIs too. So much cool stuff.

Cover image of Ann Leckie's novel TRANSLATION STATE.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 14/04/2024

Coming in August! So excited for Brenda Peynado's new book.

Cover image of the upcoming book TIME'S AGENT by Brenda Peynado. The cover shows golden clockwork spread across a background of jungle and fog.

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 14/10/2023

Colander held up to create eclipse rings

Crescent-shaped sun scatter from the eclipse

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Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com · 30/09/2023

Reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera for the first time to find some things to excerpt for students. It's so, so cool. Wish I'd read this years ago.

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