Rick Hillis

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

Works

Short stories
  • Limbo River. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8229-3653-4.

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

Death

Rick Hillis died on October 8, 2014.[4]

References
  1. http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers.html
  2. http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/html/instructor/Hillis.html
  3. http://www.depauw.edu/acad/english/facultydirectories/rick_hills.asp
  4. "DePauw Mourns the Passing of English Prof. Rick Hillis". DePaw University. 12 October 2014.
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