Robert Hilles

[3] For ten years he acted as the managing editor of Dandelion, the oldest surviving literary magazine in Alberta.

[2] In 2001, he moved to British Columbia and has been active in the literary community there, especially on Salt Spring Island where he lived for 17 years.

In the same year, his first novel, Raising of Voices (1993), won the Writers' Guild of Alberta's George Bugnet Award for Novel.

Wrapped Within Again, New and Selected Poems was published in the fall of 2003 and won the Stephan Stephansson Award for Poetry.

Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, Monitor Books, California.

Rocksalt, Mother Tongue Publishing, 2008 111 West Coast Literary Portraits, Mother Tongue Publishing, 2012 Window Fishing: The night we caught Beatlemania, Hidden Book Press, 2014 Where the Nights are Twice as Long, Goose Lane Editions, 2015 Carteggi Letterari, Italian Online Anthology, 2016 Blackberries, Salt Spring Library Anthology, 2018 Plume 9, St. Petersburg Florida, 2021 The Beauty of Being Elsewhere, Hidden Brook Press, Brighton, Ontario, 2021

His poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines in North America and abroad including:

1994 Winner Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry for Cantos from a Small Room.