Name Rick Hillis Role Poet | Education Stanford University | |
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Died October 8, 2014, Texas, United States Books Limbo river, The blue machines of night | ||
Rick Hillis is a Canadian poet, and short story writer.
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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 has been a Chesterfield Film Writers’ Fellow at Universal Studios.
He has taught creative writing at a number of institutions, including Reed College, Stanford University, Lewis & Clark College, and the University of Oregon. He has been on faculty at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writers’ Festival. He began teaching at DePauw University in 2002.
Awards
Short Stories
Poetry
Death
Rick Hillis died on October 7, 2014.
Reviews
Raymond Carver territory has an outpost in Saskatchewan, Canada, and that's where Rick Hillis sets the nine stories in this collection, which won the 1990 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Blue-collar workers and bums, alcoholics and artists, farm hands and nursing-home attendants, teachers and children struggle through a world where winters are long, money is short and dreams tend to come true only in dreams.