Michael Hickins is an author, communications executive, and youth baseball coach.

He has great ideas and he gets them done. He was the founding editor of CIO Journal, which became an industry-leading business technology publication issued by The Wall Street Journal. One of his first jobs was a field manager for New York Public Interest Research Group, where he helped train and lead fundraising efforts on behalf of a nonpartisan, grassroots “Citizen’s Lobby” that fought for New York’s generic drug law, one of the first of its kind in the nation to ensure that more people could afford their medication.

The son of Holocaust survivors, he is also the author of The Silk Factory, a prize-winning memoir about the effects of generational trauma and the importance of reconciliation, and has also authored several books of fiction and non-fiction.

Hickins lived in France for 12 years where he operated and sold a successful business. He has two adult children and a 9-year-old son he is raising in Yorktown with his wife Carol. He is active in the community, coaching youth baseball and moderating candidate debates for local elections.

Hickins attended Columbia University, where he earned a BA in comparative literature and an MFA in fiction writing. He is a life-long, avid Yankees fan.