H. L. Hix

Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960) is an American poet and academic.

Hix is an author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts).

[1] He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, which was a publication award from Truman State University Press for his volume Rational Numbers (2000).

He is a professor and former director of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming.

Later he was vice president for academic affairs and professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.