Distinguished Visiting Writer Carter Sickels

The award-winning novelist and essayist Carter Sickels will read from his work as part of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing’s Distinguished Visiting Writer series.

Sickels is the author of the novel, “The Prettiest Star,” for which he was awarded the 2021 Southern Book Prize and Weatherford Award. The novel was selected as the Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine.

His debut novel, “The Evening Hour,” was an Oregon Book Award and Lambda Literary Award finalist. It tells the story of a young man’s journey through the opioid crisis in Appalachia and was adapted into a film of the same name that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.

Sickels’ essays and fiction have appeared in Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed and in The Kenyon Review and other literary journals. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, and of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony

Sickels is an assistant professor of English & Creative Writing in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University. He earned a master’s degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Visiting writers in the MFA in Writing program at OSU-Cascades lead graduate students in workshops. Past visiting writers have included award-winning authors such as novelist Raquel Gutiérrez, autofiction writer Hannah Pittard, novelist and short story writer Justin Taylor, and poets Rebecca Morgan Frank and André Naffis-Sahely.

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