Richard Terrill is an American author and jazz musician who plays with the

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Career

Terrill's work as a writer includes three collections of poems: ''What Falls Away Is Always: Poems and Conversations'', ''Almost Dark'' and ''Coming Late to Rachmaninoff,'' a winner of the Minnesota Book Award. He has also written two nonfiction books: ''Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz'' and ''Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir'', winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for nonfiction. Terrill has received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Jerome Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the

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. He has also worked as a

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professor in

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, Korea, and Poland. He formerly taught in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato as a Distinguished faculty scholar. He retired in 2017. Terrill is also a jazz saxophonist, and much of his literary work centers on jazz as well. He plays with the

. Terrill was educated at the

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where he played with Lyle Mays, a member of the Pat Metheny Group.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''What Falls Away Is Always: Poems and Conversations'',

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, September 2020 * ''Almost Dark'', University of Tampa Press, April 2010 * ''Coming Late to Rachmaninoff'', University of Tampa Press, September 2003

Memoir

* ''Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz'',

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, November 2000 * ''Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir'', University of Arkansas Press, February 1990

References

External links

Richard Terrill
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