Author

Rick Hilles, a recipient of a Whiting Award and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, is the author of Brother Salvage (winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and named 2006 Poetry Book of the Year by Foreword magazine) and A Map of the Lost World, both with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Other sections from The Invisible Thread have appeared in the Hudson Review and have been translated into Italian.