Rick Hillis Explained

Rick Hillis was a Canadian poet and short story writer.

Life

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

• 1990 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Limbo River
• Gerald Lampert Award finalist

Works

Short stories

• Book: Limbo River . University of Pittsburgh Press . 1990 . 978-0-8229-3653-4 . registration .

Poetry

• Book: The Blue Machines of Night . Coteau Books. 1988. 978-0-919926-76-9 .

Death

Rick Hillis died on October 6, 2014.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers.html
2. Web site: Iowa Summer Writing Festival . www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030823000444/http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/html/instructor/Hillis.html . 2003-08-23.
3. Web site: DePauw University-English Department . www.depauw.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071222050937/http://www.depauw.edu/acad/english/facultydirectories/rick_hills.asp . 2007-12-22.
4. Web site: RICHARD HILLIS Obituary (2014) - Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Saskatoon Star Phoenix Obituaries. 14 October 2014.