Living Writers: Jon Hickey
Academics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Jon Hickey is the author of the novel Big Chief (Simon & Schuster, 2025). He was born in Mankato, Minnesota and grew up in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He is an enrolled citizen of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Anishinaabe). He currently lives in San Francisco with his family. His short fiction has appeared in The Madison Review, Meridian, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, among other places. His work explores themes of belonging in Indigenous experience off and on the reservation, how the mid-20th century Relocation and Termination Acts have fractured the sense of Indigenous identity, and how people seek to reclaim connection to their communities in environments far from home.Support for this event is provided by the Parshley Christ Endowment for Living Writers. The course and program are led by faculty in the Department of English and Creative Writing with generous support from the Olive B. O'Connor Fund as well as the President and the Provost/Dean of the Faculty. A signature program of Colgate University since 1980, Living Writers is a master class in how works of literature come to be.
