Denver Morrissey Nicks (born 1985) is an American journalist, photographer and a staff writer for ''Time'' magazine. Nicks' work has appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''This Land'', and ''

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''. He is the author of ''Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History'' (2012) and ''Hot Sauce Nation: America's Burning Obsession'' (2016)."Denver Nicks"
, ''This Land'', access May 4, 2012. Also see: *Nicks, Denver. ''Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History''. Chicago Review Press, 2012, . *Nicks, Denver. ''Hot Sauce Nation: America's Burning Obsession''. Chicago Review Press, 2016, . Nicks is a native of

Tulsa Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...

, Oklahoma. He currently resides in

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. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and international studies from

Southern Methodist University , mottoeng = "The truth will make you free" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = SACS , academic_affiliations = , religious_affiliation = United Methodist Church , president = R. Gerald Turner , ...

in 2007, and a master's from the

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Graduate School of Journalism in 2010.Petry, Adam ''et al''
"HCN rocks with eTown"
''High Country News'', accessed May 14, 2012.

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