Rick Hilles

Rick Hilles is an American poet born on November 25 in Canton, Ohio. He earned degrees from Kent State University (BA, LSM) and Columbia University (MFA in poetry), and has taught at institutions including Stanford (Stegner Fellow), University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan, and Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt. His notable works include the award-winning poetry collections Brother Salvage (2006, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year) and A Map of the Lost World (2012), with poems published in prestigious journals like Poetry, Paris Review, and The Nation; he has received awards such as the Whiting Writers' Award and Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.Whiting, Rick Hilles site.