Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960), who signs his work H. L. Hix, is an American poet and academic.

Hix is the 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 (from Truman State University Press in Missouri, no relation to the more famous prize in Britain). In 2006 he was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.

He is a professor and the director of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming.^[1]

Life

He 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 University of Texas at Austin 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 Cleveland Institute of Art. He has been MFA program director and professor at the University of Wyoming since 2005.^[2]

According to his web page at the University of Wyoming, Hix "enjoys weeding his flower garden, running in the thin air of Laramie, and traveling."^[2] Given his highly structured, almost hyper-modernist verse, and its consequent reluctance of ornamentation, H.L. Hix has earned the somewhat paradoxical moniker "Hard Lovin'" or "Heavy Liftin'" Hix. More recently has gained the title of Professor of Passion in reference to lectures on Coetzee. ^[3]

Books

Poetry

• Chromatic, Etruscan Press (2006) ISBN 9780974599564
• Shadows of Houses, Etruscan Press (2005) ISBN 9780974599540
• Surely As Birds Fly, Truman State University Press (March 2002, paperback) ISBN 9781931112055
• Rational Numbers, Truman State University Press (2000)
• Perfect Hell, Gibbs Smith (August 1996) ISBN 9780879057800

Prose

• As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry Etruscan Press (2002)
• Morte d'Author: An Autopsy, Temple University Press (1990)

Translations

• City of Ash, Eugenijus Ali?anka, Northwestern University Press (2000) ISBN 9780810117839

Edited Books

• New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the U.S., Irish Pages (forthcoming 2008)
• A Casebook on The Tunnel, Web-published, Dalkey Archive (2000)
• Poets At Large: 25 Poets in 25 Homes, Helicon Nine (1997)

Notes

1. ↑ "Hix, H.L. 'Harvey'", Wyoming Authors Wiki, accessed December 15, 2006
2. ↑ ^{a b} "Department of English/ H. L. Hix, Professor/ MFA Program Director" University of Wyoming Web site, accessed December 15, 2006
3. ↑ "Discussant at lecture", University of Wyoming English Department, Matthiessen library, October 17, 2007

External links

• "Hix, H.L. 'Harvey'", Wyoming Authors Wiki Web site
• "H.L. Hix Web page", University of Wyoming English Department Web site

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