Discipline: Literature – poetry

Richard Terrill

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Minneapolis, MN
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998
More: richardterrill.com
Richard Terrill is an American author. His work includes two collections of poems, 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 the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Jerome Foundation, MacDowell, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has also worked as a Fulbright professor in China, Korea, and Poland. He currently teaches in the M.F.A. program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, as a distinguished faculty scholar. Terrill is also a jazz saxophonist, and much of his literary work centers on jazz as well. Terrill was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire where he played with Lyle Mays, a member of the Pat Metheny Group.

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Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Richard Terrill worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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