How to Write a Book
You Care About

How to Write a Book You Care About

Author David Hicks discusses with playwright, photographer, and professor Matthew Hinton the motivation and strategies behind the writing of his three autobiographical books, and how, in each case, truth-telling and vulnerability won out over “the demands of the market.”

David Hicks is the author of the novel WHITE PLAINS (Bower House Books), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and Westword’s #1 book by Colorado authors; THE MAGIC TICKET (Fulcrum Books), an autobiographical children’s book; and a second novel, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO DANNY (Vine Leaves Press, 2025). An award-winning professor and recipient of two Fulbright scholarships (Czech Republic 2020 and 2022), David is the founding director of the Regis University MFA in Creative Writing and current director of the nationally ranked Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He and his wife Cynthia are the founders of Electric City Writers in Scranton, PA, where they live with their demonically charming dog Louie.

Mathew Hinton bio