Deborah Hicks

Deborah Hicks was raised in North Carolina, in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Educated in public schools, she later earned a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has been a teacher and writer for over two decades, focusing on the lives of children in poor and working-class America. The author of two previous books about literacy education, including Reading Lives, she has written for magazines such as The Progressive and DoubleTake/Point of Entry and for education journals. Deborah is the founding director of PAGE, a partnership supporting educational opportunity for girls and young women in Appalachia. She lives in Chapel Hill and, for part of each year, in Spring Creek – a rural mountain community in Madison County, North Carolina.