Michael Hickins (born May 1, 1961) is an American fiction writer,

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, and news editor. He works at Oracle Corp. as director of strategic communications, and used to be as an editor at the ''

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'' and founding editor of ''CIO Journal''. His debut work, ''The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing'', was published in 1991 and featured a cover design by

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. '' Kirkus Reviews'' called the anthology "a strange collection" and "a weird and unconvincing debut." Hickins has been a speaker and panelist at the

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in 2013 and 2014.

Bibliography

* ''The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing'' (1991) * ''Blomqvist'' (1996) * ''Lion Heartbreak'' (1998) * ''The Silk Factory. Finding Threads of My Family's True Holocaust Story'' (June 2023)

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