Richard Terrill

Richard Terrill, professor emeritus at Minnesota State University–Mankato, is the author of two collections of poems from the University of Tampa Press, Almost Dark (2010) and Coming Late to Rachmaninoff (2003), the latter a winner of the Minnesota Book Award. He is also the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz—Terrill plays jazz saxophone—and Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir (University of Arkansas Press), winner of the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the state art boards of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the Jerome Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His work has appeared in journals such as the Iowa Review, North American Review, River Teeth, New Letters, and Crazyhorse.