Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960), is an

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poet and academic. Hix is an author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA. He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, which was a publication award from Truman State University Press for his volume ''Rational Numbers'' (2000). In

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he was a finalist for the

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. He is a professor and former director of the creative writing MFA program at the

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."Hix, H.L. 'Harvey'"
, ''Wyoming Authors Wiki'', accessed December 15, 2006

Life

Hix received his bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from Belmont University in 1982, magna cum laude; his master's degree in philosophy from the

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in 1985; and his doctorate in philosophy from the same institution in 1987. He has taught in a number of positions at the Kansas City Art Institute — lecturer-in-residence, 1987–1988; assistant professor, 1988–1994; associate professor, 1994–1998; professor, 1998–2002; interim vice president for academic affairs, 1996–1998. Later he was vice president for academic affairs and professor at the

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. He has been MFA program director and professor at the

since 2005."Department of English/ H. L. Hix, Professor/ MFA Program Director"
University of Wyoming Web site, accessed December 15, 2006

Books

Poetry

* ''Incident Light'', Etruscan Press (

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) * * ''Chromatic'', Etruscan Press (

) * ''Shadows of Houses'', Etruscan Press (

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) * ''Surely As Birds Fly'', Truman State University Press (March

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, paperback) * ''Rational Numbers'', Truman State University Press (

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) * ''Perfect Hell'', Gibbs Smith (August

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Prose

* * ''As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry'' Etruscan Press (

) * * * * ''Morte d'Author: An Autopsy'', Temple University Press (

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Translations

* * * ''City of Ash'', Eugenijus Ališanka, Northwestern University Press (

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Edited books

* * * ''A Casebook on The Tunnel'', Web-published, Dalkey Archive (

) * ''Poets At Large: 25 Poets in 25 Homes'', Helicon Nine (

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Notes

External links

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''Wyoming Authors Wiki'' Web site

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