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Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary
' (2006). Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel, and Bryan Albin Giemza (eds.). Louisiana State University Press. pp. 105-06. . Google Books. Retrieved on March 23, 2011. (born October 11, 1937) is an

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, author, critic, and

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.Hollins University M.F.A. in Creative Writing Faculty Page
. Hollins University Website. Retrieved on March 23, 2011. Born in

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, Dillard is best known as a poet. He is also highly regarded as a writer of fiction and critical essays, as well as one of the screenwriters for the cult classic ''

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''. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from

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and went on to receive of a Master of Arts (1959) and the Ph. D. (1965) from the

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. While at the University of Virginia he was both a

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and a DuPont Fellow. He is considered something of an institution at

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where he has been teaching creative writing, literature, and film studies since 1964. Dillard has been the editor of the ''Hollins Critic'' since 1996. He also served as the vice president of the ''

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'' from 1973 to 1980. He is the winner of numerous awards for his writing including the

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Prize, the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, and the Hanes Award for Poetry. In 2007, he was awarded the George Garrett Award for Service to Contemporary Literature by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.R.H.W. Dillard Receives the 2007 AWP/George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature
. The Association for Writers & Writers Programs Website. Retrieved on March 23, 2011. Dillard influenced many contemporary writers including both his ex-wives Annie Dillard and

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. Others include the likes of Henry S. Taylor,

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, Lucinda MacKethan, Anne Jones, Rosanne Coggeshall,

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, Jill McCorkle, Madison Smartt Bell, and Julia Johnson.

Bibliography

* 1966 ''The Day I Stopped Dreaming About

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'' * 1971 ''News of the Nile'' * 1972 ''After Borges'' * 1974 ''The Book of Changes'' * 1976 ''Horror Films'' * 1981 ''The Greeting: New & Selected Poems'' * 1983 ''The First Man on the Sun'' * 1988 ''Understanding George Garrett'' * 1994 ''Just Here, Just Now'' * 1995 ''Omniphobia'' * 1995

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's ''The Little Box'' * 1999

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's ''The Sexual Congress'' * 2001 ''Sallies'' * 2011 ''What Is Owed the Dead'' * 2014 ''Not Ideas''

References

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