Carter Sickels

Carter Sickels is an American author and educator known for his novels The Evening Hour (2012) and The Prettiest Star (2020), which won the 2021 Southern Book Prize and the Weatherford Award[3][1]. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Eastern Kentucky University and has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference[2][5]. Sickels was awarded the 2025 Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize and the 2013 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award[3][6].