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According to Caitlin Hicks, the central circumstance of her existence is that she was, "born into a very large military Catholic family in the United States of America."
Growing up in Pasadena, California she wrote, performed and directed family plays with her thirteen brothers and sisters. She went on to become an author and international playwright. Monologues from several of her plays are featured in Smith & Kraus' series Best Women's Stage Monologues (New York). Hicks wrote the play, later adapted for the screen, Singing the Bones, which debuted at the Montreal World Film Festival (2001) and has been screened internationally.
A Theory of Expanded Love (Light Messages, North Carolina 2015) is her debut novel about a young girl, Annie, and her Catholic family. Annie wants to elevate her family in their parish but is held back by her secrets - what she later reveals as "The Hands" that visit her in bed and the fact that her sister becomes pregnant "out of wedlock". When Annie realizes her parents will do anything to protect their reputation, she takes courageous risks to find salvation from the tragic events that ensue.
According to publicity materials: Hicks' next novel, Kennedy Girl, "features Annie Shea in her 1968 senior year in Catholic high school in Pasadena, as she performs in a scandalous production of ‘Hair,’ as she sneaks out at night to volunteer for the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy, as she follows her heart into the world, discovering the personal, human price of racism, the legacy of the Vietnam war and the deep hypocrisy of a charismatic Catholic priest, as she participates in women’s changing role in society, as she explores the meaning of home and country, as she struggles to find her voice amidst the chaos, danger and rebellion of the late Sixties. Fleeing the country with her AWOL brother to Canada, Annie begins to speak as a world citizen."
Caitlin Hicks has published several short stories and worked as a writer for CBS and NBC radio in the United States, and has performed her fiction and non-fiction for CBC radio. Her writing has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Vancouver Sun, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Fiddlehead Magazine, Knight Literary Journal and other publications.
She lives in British Columbia.
She writes: "Born the 6th child in a family of fourteen children, I was distinguished by my fair skin, small upper torso and the nickname Skinny-Milink-the-Graveyard-Dancer. As a child my dog Lucky gave me needed one-on-one attention; after graduation from Loyola Marymount University in LA I jumped the nest and met my true love in San Francisco (a Canadian, how exotic!) and now live in Canada. I am a published writer of short stories, non-fiction, radio, theatre and film. One of my plays was adapted to a feature film called "Singing the Bones" (www.fatsalmon.ca) and has screened around the world every year since its premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2001.
BOOKS:
George Goes for a Walk (2011)
A Theory of Expanded Love (North Carolina: Light Messages 2015) 20.95 978-1-61153-131-2
Kennedy Girl (Sunbury Press, June 2023) $19.95
[BCBW 2023]
Growing up in Pasadena, California she wrote, performed and directed family plays with her thirteen brothers and sisters. She went on to become an author and international playwright. Monologues from several of her plays are featured in Smith & Kraus' series Best Women's Stage Monologues (New York). Hicks wrote the play, later adapted for the screen, Singing the Bones, which debuted at the Montreal World Film Festival (2001) and has been screened internationally.
A Theory of Expanded Love (Light Messages, North Carolina 2015) is her debut novel about a young girl, Annie, and her Catholic family. Annie wants to elevate her family in their parish but is held back by her secrets - what she later reveals as "The Hands" that visit her in bed and the fact that her sister becomes pregnant "out of wedlock". When Annie realizes her parents will do anything to protect their reputation, she takes courageous risks to find salvation from the tragic events that ensue.
According to publicity materials: Hicks' next novel, Kennedy Girl, "features Annie Shea in her 1968 senior year in Catholic high school in Pasadena, as she performs in a scandalous production of ‘Hair,’ as she sneaks out at night to volunteer for the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy, as she follows her heart into the world, discovering the personal, human price of racism, the legacy of the Vietnam war and the deep hypocrisy of a charismatic Catholic priest, as she participates in women’s changing role in society, as she explores the meaning of home and country, as she struggles to find her voice amidst the chaos, danger and rebellion of the late Sixties. Fleeing the country with her AWOL brother to Canada, Annie begins to speak as a world citizen."
Caitlin Hicks has published several short stories and worked as a writer for CBS and NBC radio in the United States, and has performed her fiction and non-fiction for CBC radio. Her writing has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Vancouver Sun, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Fiddlehead Magazine, Knight Literary Journal and other publications.
She lives in British Columbia.
She writes: "Born the 6th child in a family of fourteen children, I was distinguished by my fair skin, small upper torso and the nickname Skinny-Milink-the-Graveyard-Dancer. As a child my dog Lucky gave me needed one-on-one attention; after graduation from Loyola Marymount University in LA I jumped the nest and met my true love in San Francisco (a Canadian, how exotic!) and now live in Canada. I am a published writer of short stories, non-fiction, radio, theatre and film. One of my plays was adapted to a feature film called "Singing the Bones" (www.fatsalmon.ca) and has screened around the world every year since its premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2001.
BOOKS:
George Goes for a Walk (2011)
A Theory of Expanded Love (North Carolina: Light Messages 2015) 20.95 978-1-61153-131-2
Kennedy Girl (Sunbury Press, June 2023) $19.95
[BCBW 2023]
