He is former Chair of the English Department at Purcell Marian High School[1] where the Writing Program he designed and administered won the National First Prize in The English-Speaking Union[2] "Excellence in English Award" in 1994.Since 2015 he has served as Writer-in-Residence at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.
Milltown Natural: Essays And Stories from A Life (Bottom Dog Press, 1997) was a 1997 National Book Award nominee.
He is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, The Council for Basic Education, The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Marianist Education Consortium, and three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowships in two genres.
This is a wildly original story in the great American tradition of the tall tale, by a writer who's clearly punch-drunk on language.
Richard Hague lives in Cincinnati's Madisonville neighborhood with his wife Pam Korte,[10] a potter and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at The College of Mt.
St. Joseph,[11] and his two sons, Patrick, an alumnus of Indiana University, and Brendan, a graduate of Purcell Marian High School.