Rick Hillis was a Canadian poet and short story writer.
Life edit
He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and the Iowa Writers Workshop, with an MFA. He attended Stanford University as a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in fiction writing, and was also a Chesterfield Film Writers’ Fellow at Universal Studios.
He taught creative writing at a number of institutions, including Reed College,[1] Stanford University, Lewis & Clark College, and the University of Oregon. As well, he was on faculty at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writers’ Festival.[2] He began teaching at DePauw University in 2002.[3]
Awards edit
- 1990 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Limbo River
- Gerald Lampert Award finalist
Works edit
Short stories edit
- Limbo River. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8229-3653-4.
Poetry edit
- The Blue Machines of Night. Coteau Books. 1988. ISBN 978-0-919926-76-9.
Death edit
Rick Hillis died on October 6, 2014.[4]
References edit
- ^ http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers.html
- ^ "Iowa Summer Writing Festival". www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2003-08-23.
- ^ "DePauw University-English Department". www.depauw.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-12-22.
- ^ "RICHARD HILLIS Obituary (2014) - Saskatoon StarPhoenix". Saskatoon Star Phoenix Obituaries. 14 October 2014.