Rick Hilles

Rick Hilles is the author of two full-length poetry collections: BROTHER SALVAGE, winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and named the 2006 Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine (which celebrates independent and small press publishing), and A MAP OF THE LOST WORLD (2012) both with the University of Pittsburgh Press. He has been the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a Camargo Fellowship, and, most recently, a 2013 Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission. He lives in Nashville, where he teaches courses in poetry at all undergraduate levels as well as in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University.

For more info, please click on the following links:

A MAP OF THE LOST WORLD:

http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36269

BROTHER SALVAGE:

http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35808

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hilles