Rick Hillis was a Canadian poet and short story writer.

Life

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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

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Works

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Short stories

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

Poetry

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Death

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

References

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  1. ^ http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers.html
  2. ^ "Iowa Summer Writing Festival". www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2003-08-23.
  3. ^ "DePauw University-English Department". www.depauw.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-12-22.
  4. ^ "RICHARD HILLIS Obituary (2014) - Saskatoon StarPhoenix". Saskatoon Star Phoenix Obituaries. 14 October 2014.