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Rick Hillis was a Canadian poet and short story writer.
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Rick Hillis was a Canadian poet and short story writer.
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]
Rick Hillis died on October 6, 2014. [4]
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