Rick Hillis was a Canadian

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and short story writer.

Life

He graduated from the

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and the

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, with an MFA. He attended

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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,

, Lewis & Clark College, and the

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. As well, he was on faculty at the

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’s Summer Writers’ Festival. He began teaching at

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in 2002.

Awards

* 1990

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, for ''Limbo River'' * Gerald Lampert Award finalist

Works

Short stories

Poetry

Death

Rick Hillis died on October 6, 2014.

References

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