Richard Terrill

Richard Terrill’s new book of essays is Essentially from Holy Cow! Press.  (www.holycowpress.org) He is the author of six previous books including the memoir Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz; Coming Late to Rachmaninoff, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry; and Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Nonfiction.  He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Jerome Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, as well as three Fulbright Fellowships. Work has appeared in journals such as Iowa Review, Georgia Review, North American Review, Missouri Review, River Teeth, New Letters, Fourth Genre, and Crazyhorse.  He is Professor Emeritus at Minnesota State, Mankato, where he was Distinguished Faculty Scholar.  He currently works as a jazz saxophone player.  His website is www.richardterill.com.