Jim Hicks

Jim Hicks is the former executive editor of the Massachusetts Review and former director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At UMass, he was nominated by his students three times for the University’s Distinguished Graduate Mentor award. His most recent translation is Federica Marzi’s My Home Somewhere Else (Sandorf Passage). Other translations include short pieces by François-Marie Banier, Italo Calvino, Ananda Devi, Violaine Huisman, Juan José Saer, Izet Sarajlić, and longer works by Erri De Luca. His Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer was published by the University of Massachusetts Press.