Title: Assistant Professor
Program: Creative Writing
Department: English
Office: 427 Benson
Phone: 615-322-2541 - English Dept. Office
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
- Fall 2011:
- English 258 Poetry Since WW II
- English 202 Literature & Craft of Writing
- Spring 2011 (Sabbatical Leave)
- Fall 2010:
- English 304 Graduate Poetry Workshop
- English 249 17th Century Poetry (with Leah Marcus)
- Spring 2010:
- English 258 Poetry Since WW II
- English 116W Intro to Poetry
- Fall 2009 (Sabbatical Leave)
- Spring 2009:
- English 304 Graduate Poetry Workshop
- English 288 Contemporary American Poetry
- Fall 2008:
- English 249 17th Century Poetry (with Leah Marcus)
- English 116W Intro. to Poetry
Professional Societies
- Academy of American Poets
- Associated Writing Programs
- PEN
- Poetry Society of America
Professional Honors
- 2009-2013 Mellon Faculty Development Award, Vanderbilt University
- 2011 Pushcart Prize Nomination
- 2009 Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, Cassis, France (September -- December).
- 2008 Whiting Writers' Award
- 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
- A Map of the Lost World, Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press (forthcoming, Feb./March 2012).
- Brother Salvage (selected by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize) appeared in Fall 2006 with the Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Limited edition collections: Preparing for Flight (2005) Puddinghouse Press; A Visionary's Company & other poems (2000) Parallel Press.
- Various poems & other work in Harper's, The Hudson Review, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Salmagundi and other periodicals.
