About

Pat Hicks writes about identity, truth, and the long road toward becoming yourself. His work explores the emotional inheritance we carry, the stories we’re given, and the quiet work of untangling who we were told to be from who we really are.

Before turning to memoir, he spent decades in the real world—the kind of work that teaches you how people talk, what they hold back, and how much of a life can be lived between the lines.

His debut book, My Name Is a Lie and Other Truths, traces the fault lines between loyalty, silence, and the unexpected freedom that comes from finally knowing the whole story. It is a true account of a revelation that upended everything he thought he knew about himself and the work of rebuilding a life on truth instead of myth.

He continues to write about family, identity, and the lifelong work of becoming whole.