Title: Assistant Professor

Program: Creative Writing
Department: English

Office: 427 Benson
Phone: 615-343-3187
Fax: 615-343-8028
Email: Rick.Hilles@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.F.A. - Columbia University
• B.A./Master's of Liberal Studies - Kent State University

Research Area

• Creative Writing, Poetry,

Current Courses

• 207 Advanced Poetry Workshop
• 123 Beginning Poetry Workshop

Professional Honors

• 2007 James Merrill Writer-In-Residence, Stonington, CT (September -- January).
• 2007 Brother Salvage: winner of ForeWord Magazine's - Book of the Year Award (Poetry) for 2006.
• 2007 Pushcart Prize nomination
• 2007 Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Award (Finalist).
• 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, Pitt Poetry Series
• 2003 Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize, New England Poetry Club
• 2002-2003 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar
• 1999-2000 Ruth & Jay C. Halls Fellow, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• 1999 Larry Levis Editors' Prize, The Missouri Review
• 1995-1997 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Stanford University

Publications

• Brother Salvage (selected by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize) appeared in the Fall of 2006 with the University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Limited edition collections: Preparing for Flight (2005) Puddinghouse Press; A Visionary's Company & other poems (2000) Parallel Press.
• Various poems & translations in Harper's, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Salmagundi and other periodicals.