Rick Hilles is assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University and is the author of the poetry collection "Brother Salvage, " winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. He has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a Ruth and Jay C. Halls Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hilles is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and the Larry Levis Editor's Prize in Poetry from "The Missouri Review." He and his wife, the fiction writer Nancy Reisman, live in Nashville.
