AWARDS & HONORS
- 2024 Pushcart Prize Nomination — “Quiddity“* (Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, Fall 2024, Vol. 24, #2, Johns Hopkins University Press) (*The digital version includes some formatting errors)
- 2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination—”By Degrees” (Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry)
- Third Place—Fare Forward Poetry Competition 2022, “My Daughter Asks for a Pomegranate”
- Finalist—New York Encounter Poetry Contest 2022, “Quiddity”
- Winner, The Briar Cliff Review Annual Contest 2019: “Drink It Dry” (fiction)
- 2019 Pushcart Prize Nomination—“Drink It Dry” (Briar Cliff Review, Volume 31)
- Finalist—Enoch Pratt Library Poetry Contest 2018, “The Exile Speaks of Mountains”
- Second Place—Maryland Writers Association Annual Poetry Competition 2016, “Birth of the Girl-Child”
POETRY
“Quiddity“* (Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, Fall 2024, Vol. 24, #2, Johns Hopkins University Press) (*The digital version includes some formatting errors)
“By Degrees” Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2023
“A Prayer: On Synthetic Snowflakes” Ekstasis Magazine, March 2023
“My Daughter Asks for a Pomegranate” Fare Forward 2022*
“An Initiation to Ash Wednesday” Ekstasis Magazine, March 2022
“Walk to Emmaus” Vita Poetica, Spring 2021
“Respite Walk” Anglican Theological Review, Winter 2021, Vol. 103, Number 1
“Accumulated Lessons in Displacement” The Baltimore Review, Maryland Writers issue, October 2019
“Disaster Chaplaincy” The Windhover, February 2019
“The Exile Speaks of Mountains” Little Patuxent Review, Summer 2018**
“It Wasn’t Odd” “Just Before” Relief – A Journal of Art and Faith, Summer 2018
“Hospitality” “Birth of the Girl-Child” “Remnants of Empire” Pen in Hand, 2017***
“Everything Is a Departure” Bloodstone Review, Issue #1, May 2015
“Cameo” St. Katherine Review, Volume 4, Number 3, 2014
“The Truth About the River” Welter, Fall 2014
“Chengdu Pastoral” Gulf Stream Magazine, May 2013
“The Coveted Gift” Off the Coast, May 2013
“Speak Like Rain” Tiger’s Eye Journal, Summer 2013
“Cicadas, East of Eden” The Penwood Review, Fall 2011
“God’s Sermon at the Eucharist” Time of Singing, Spring 2010
*Third place winner, Fare Forward Poetry Contest 2022
**”The Exile Speaks of Mountains” was chosen as Runner-Up in the Enoch Pratt Library’s 2018 Poetry Contest for Maryland residents. Watch me read this poem and two others at LPR’s summer issue launch event; or, listen to me read this poem and four others at the Enoch Pratt Library 2018 Poetry Contest celebration event (click the link above and scroll down to listen to or download the podcast; I’m the first reader, but I hope you have time to listen to the other amazing poets who also read their work).
***”Birth of the Girl-Child” won second place in the Maryland Writers Association’s Annual Poetry Competition 2016.
FICTION
- “Drink It Dry” Solum Journal, Fall 2022
- “Drink It Dry” The Briar Cliff Review, 2019 (Fiction Contest Winner & Pushcart Prize Nomination)
ESSAYS & ARTICLES
- “On Milosz, Exile, and Humane Art” Front Porch Republic, April 25, 2023
- “Laurus, Sacramentality, and Enchantment” Veritas Journal, Jan. 27, 2023
- “Risks in the Shallows: How Highly Mobile TCKs Can Learn to Live Deeply” Among Worlds, December 2022
- “The Return to Joy” Undaunted Joy, Nov. 6, 2022
- “To Know Him in Suffering” A Life Overseas, January 2020
- “To My Adult TCK Self: I See You” A Life Overseas, May 19, 2018
- “Re-Entry: An Internal Monologue” Rocky Re-Entry, January 23, 2017
- “These Seeds” A Life Overseas, July 25, 2016
- “What I’m Reading: Frederick Buechner” Velvet Ashes, June 29, 2016
INTERVIEWS
- BenThere podcast interview BenThere podcast (Oct. 23, 2022)
- TCK Live! Interview, Interaction International (May 5, 2021)
- Little Patuxent Review “Meet Our Contributors: Q&A with Rachel E. Hicks”
- Writers & Words, a Baltimore Reading Series “5 Burning Questions with Rachel E. Hicks” (Sept. 2, 2019)