Greg Hill (author) explained

Greg Hill (Gregory Walter Hill and Soapy Argyle) is an American musician, illustrator and author. He is best known for his novel, East of Denver.

Personal

Hill was raised in eastern Colorado. He lives and works in Joes, Colorado.

Writing

Gregory Hill is the author of four novels. These include The Strattford County Trilogy--East of Denver (2012), The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles (2015) and Zebra Skin Shirt (2018)--as well as the forthcoming Sister Liberty (2023), which will be the first novel of the epochal Stables Family Series.[1]

In 2013, Hill received the Colorado Book Award for East of Denver. [2] which was published in 2012. He also produces graphics art work on concert promotional posters and CD inserts. His novel, The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles, won the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest in 2014.[3] It was published in 2015.

Since 2016, Hill has contributed opinion columns to his local newspaper, The Yuma Pioneer,[4] as well as the Colorado Times Recorder.[5]

Music career

Hill has recorded several solo albums and performed in bands including The Shivers, Mr. Tree and the Wingnuts,[6] Marty Jones and the Pork Boilin' Po' Boys, The Orangu-Tones,[7] Six Months to Live, The Super Phoenixes[8] and the Babysitters.[9] Hill plays guitar, saxophone, piano, sitar, banjo, vocals, harmonica and bass guitar.

Since 1999, Hill's record label, Sparky the Dog, has recorded over 50 albums, including releases by the Anti-Westerns,[10] Plates of Cake,[11] the New England Axe Factory and the North Cascades.[12]

Awards

References

  1. Web site: Gregory Hill author website . May 28, 2022 . June 26, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626085447/https://www.gregoryhillauthor.com/ . live .
  2. Web site: Colorado Humanities . 2013 Colorado Book Award Winners. https://web.archive.org/web/20171013070115/http://www.coloradohumanities.org/content/2013-colorado-book-award-winners . 2017-10-13 .,
  3. http://leapfrogpress.com/available-books/fiction/Lonesome_Trials.html Lonesome Trials
  4. Web site: Columnists – Yuma Pioneer. www.yumapioneer.com. May 28, 2022. May 17, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220517200939/https://www.yumapioneer.com/category/columnists/. live.
  5. Colorado Times Recorder
  6. Marty Jones, On a Wing and a Prayer, Westword, April 20, 2000
  7. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Orangu-Tones/145354045521068 The Orangu-Tones
  8. News: Opinion | My New Band Needs a Name. Steve. Knopper. The New York Times. September 12, 2018. NYTimes.com. May 28, 2022. May 28, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220528173828/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/opinion/knopper-band-names-music.html. live.
  9. https://sparkythedog.bandcamp.com/album/split-seams-2015 The Babysitters
  10. https://newnoisemagazine.com/bandcamp-of-the-day-anti-westerns/ Anti-Westerns
  11. https://westernrevisions.bandcamp.com/ Plates of Cake
  12. https://northcascadesband.bandcamp.com/releases North Cascades
  13. http://leapfrogpress.com/Contest%20Winners/2014%20Winners.htm Winners
  14. Web site: 2013 Colorado Book Award Winners | Colorado Humanities . 2014-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171013070115/http://www.coloradohumanities.org/content/2013-colorado-book-award-winners . 2017-10-13 . dead .
  15. Web site: Boulder County Artist in Residence Program. August 8, 2023. December 30, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161230013341/http://www.bouldercounty.org/os/events/pages/artistresidence.aspx. live.

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