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, 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. He began teaching at DePauw University in 2002.

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

Works

Short stories

Poetry

Death Rick Hillis died on October 6, 2014.