Composer, performer, scholar, and poet Michael Hicks (1956- ) has been teaching in the BYU School of Music since 1985. He is the author of four scholarly books: Mormonism and Music: A History (1989), Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions (1999), Henry Cowell, Bohemian (2002), and Christian Wolff (2012, co-authored with Christian Asplund), all published by University of Illinois Press. His historical and analytical articles have appeared in dozens of books and journals, including Musical Quarterly, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Perspectives of New Music, and Journal of Aesthetic Education. He has twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (1994 and 2003) for his writing about music, and a third time as editor of the journal American Music, a post he held from 2007-2010. His poetry has been published in Dialogue, BYU Studies, Literature and Belief, Sunstone, and in the anthologies Cadence of Hooves (2008), New Poets of the American West (2010) and Fire in the Pasture (2011). His chamber music may be heard on the CDs Found Horizon, Late Conversations, and Ritual Grounds, all on the Tantara label, which in 2007 also issued his singer-songwriter album Valentine St.