Robert Hilles

In 2001, he moved to British Columbia and has been active in the literary community there, especially on Salt Spring Island where he lived for 17 years. He moved to Nanaimo in 2019. He served on the executive of the League of Canadian Poets for five years and in 1996 was sent by the League of Canadian Poets and the Department of Foreign Affairs to represent Canada at an International Poetry Festival in Japan. Hilles won the 1994 Governor General's Award for Poetry for Cantos From A Small Room (1993). In the same year, his first novel, Raising of Voices (1993), won the Writers' Guild of Alberta's George Bugnet Award for Novel. He has published sixteen books of poetry and five books of prose. Wrapped Within Again, New and Selected Poems was published in the fall of 2003 and won the Stephan Stephansson Award for Poetry. His second novel, A Gradual Ruin, was published by Doubleday Canada in 2004. His books have also been shortlisted for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Prize, the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and the Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction.

• Name — Robert Hilles • Born — November 13, 1951 (age 74) • Birthplace — Kenora, Ontario, Canada • Education — University of Calgary • Occupation — * Poet • novelist • Years Active — 1980–present • Awards — * 1994 Governor General's Awards • Alberta Literary Awards • Website — https: roberthilles.wordpress.com/about-robert-hilles/

Ride Off Any Horizon I and II, NeWest Press. Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, Monitor Books, California. 1988. Men and Women (Together and Alone), The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Iowa. 1988. A Discord of Flags, a discord of flags, Toronto, 1992. Snapshots, Black Moss Press, 1992. Boundless Alberta, NeWest Press, 1993 (Short Story) Reconsilable Differences, Bayeaux Press, 1994 That Sign of Perfection, Black Moss Press, 1995 (Nonfiction) Fresh Tracks, Polestar, 1998 In the Clear, Thistledown Press, 1998 Losers First, Black Moss Press, 1999 I Want to be the Poet of Your Knee Caps, Black Moss Press, 1999. Threshold, University of Alberta Press, 1999 Henry's Creature, Black Moss Press, 2000. Smaller Than God, Black Moss Press, 2001. Gifts: Poems for Parents, Sumach Press, 2002. Writing the Terrain, University of Calgary Press, 2005. Rocksalt, Mother Tongue Publishing, 2008 111 West Coast Literary Portraits, Mother Tongue Publishing, 2012 Window Fishing: The night we caught Beatlemania, Hidden Book Press, 2014 Where the Nights are Twice as Long, Goose Lane Editions, 2015 Carteggi Letterari, Italian Online Anthology, 2016 Blackberries, Salt Spring Library Anthology, 2018 Plume 9, St. Petersburg Florida, 2021 The Beauty of Being Elsewhere, Hidden Brook Press, Brighton, Ontario, 2021

His poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines in North America and abroad including: The Windsor Review, Prairie Fire, Event, Capilano Review, West Coast Line, The Fiddlehead, CV 2, Descant, The Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly. Arc, Poetry Canada Review, NeWest Review, Canadian Fiction Magazine, The Forge Literary Magazine, The Write Launch Literary Magazine, The Malahat Review, Canadian Literature, Carousel, The Danforth Review, The JellyFishReview, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Varnish Journal, Eclectica Magazine, Mantra Review, Grain Magazine, Juniper: A Poetry Journal, Penultimate Peanut, and Zone 3: A Literary Journal, Plume Poetry Journal, and many others.