RICHARD TERRILL
4633 Ensign Avenue North Department of English
Minneapolis, MN 55428 Minnesota State University
richard.terrill@mnsu.edu Mankato, MN 56002
763-535-5382 507-389-5500
Coming Late to Rachmaninoff (poems) Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2003.
Winner, Minnesota Book Award.
Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz. New York: Limelight Editions,
2000.
Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press,
1990. Winner, Associated Writing Programs Award for Nonfiction.
CHAPBOOKS, LOCALLY PUBLISHED & BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
Duke Ellington (children’s book). Chicago: Raintree, 2003.
The Cross and the Red Star: John Foster Travels to the Eighth Route Army. Minneapolis:
Asian Pacific Foundation, 1994.
The Death of the Tenor Sax (poetry chapbook). Eau Claire: Red Weather Press, 1980.
“Yet Again to the Lake” in Colorado Review. Fall 2006
“Why I Played the Blues” in Five Years of Fourth Genre. Michigan State University
Press: 2006.
“Solstice” in Brevity, Summer 2005. Reprinted in The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft
in Creative Nonfiction. Longman: 2006. Dinty Moore, Editor.
“Walden East,” (Chinese language translation) reprinted from Saturday Night in Baoding,
in Cultural Meetings: American Writers, Scholars and Artists in China. 2004.
“Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” in The Writers’ Chronicle. Oct/Nov. 2004
“Closing Down the Jazz Club: On Music and Writing” in ACM. Spring 2004
“Writing, Jazz, and the Ultimate Plot of Life: A Conversation with Richard Terrill" in
Tampa Review, Spring 2004
“Trout fishing: A Manifesto” in River Teeth. Spring 2004.
“Trying to be a Tourist in China” in Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange
University Press of America, 2003.
“Character in Creative Nonfiction” (Roundtable with Judith Kitchen, John Hildebrand,
and Donald Morrill) in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction,
Vol. 3, Number 1, Spring 2001.
“Improvisations: John Coltrane” in New Letters, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2000.
“Improvisations: Wayne Shorter” in Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2000.
“Improvisations: Stan Getz” in ACM, Number 36, Spring 2000.
“Why I Played the Blues” in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2,
Number 1, Spring 2000.
“Improvisations: Bill Evans” in Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Fall
1999.
“The Opium Story: Some Cases in the Writing of Creative Nonfiction” in The Writer’s
Chronicle. May/Summer 1999.
“Sik Fan” in Ascent. Vol. 22, No. 3, Spring 1998.
“Li’s Story” in Tampa Review. Spring/Summer 1998.
“See You on Next Record” in Tampa Review. Fall/Winter 1997.
“Fakebook” in High Plains Literary Review. Vol.12, No. 2, Fall 1997.
“Travels with Myron” in North American Review. Vol. 282, Nos. 3 & 4, July 1997.
“Master Class” in High Plains Literary Review, Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 1996.
“Now Playing in Chengdu: Taking Hollywood to China,” in The Florida Review, Vol.
XXI, No. 2, 1996.
“John Foster's Great Experience” in Today (Mankato State University). Winter 1995.
“Interview with Lyle Mays” in Wisconsin Academy Review. Vol. 41 No. 3, Summer
1995.
“The New Chinese Poetry” in Another Chicago Magazine 27, Winter 1994.
“On Contemporary Chinese Poetry” in Michigan Quarterly Review. Vol. 31, No. 2,
Spring 1992.
“Three Saxophones: A Memoir,” in High Plains Literary Review. Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall
1991.
“Travels with Snow,” in New Letters Review of Books. Vol. 5, No. 1. 1991.
“What They Thought They Saw: Personal Narratives by American and Canadian
Residents in China, 1972-1989,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4, Fall
1990.
“Walden East: A Chicagoan in China” in Another Chicago Magazine, number 21,
Fall 1990.
“Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir,” (book excerpt) in The Chinese. Ann
Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1990.
“Saturday Night in Baoding: Ballroom Dancing in China” in New Letters. Vol. 55, No. 2,
Winter 1988-89.
Other essays and articles in ACM, The Korea Times, The Sichuan Daily, San Jose Mercury News, The Jeonbug Herald, Arizona Quarterly, Hawaii Pacific Review, Upriver 5, Ladysmith (Wis) News, Today, Writing the Waves, Currents, The Corresponder.
Three poems in Enskyment, an online anthology. www.enskyment.com (forthcoming).
“The Last Great Places” in Green Mountains Review (forthcoming).
“On the Radio” in Higher Learning: Reading and Writing About College, second edition
(Prentice Hall, 2006).
“American” in Water~stone Review, Fall 2005.
Four poems in Tampa Review, Spring 2004.
“Walt Whitman,” translated from the Chinese of Wang Ying (translated with Cheng
Baolin) in Visiting Walt. University of Iowa Press: 2004.
“Three Windows” in Hubbub, Spring 2003.
“Appalachian Spring” in Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2000.
Four poems in Tampa Review, Fall 2000.
“Landscape with Cows and Sheep” in Cream City Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, Fall 1999.
“The Moldau” in Iowa Review, Vol. 29, #1, spring 1999.
“Ornette Coleman,” “Poem in the Manner of Thelonious Monk,” and “Embraceable You” in High Plains Literary Review, Vol. XII, No. 2, Fall 1997.
“Coming Late to Rachmaninoff” in Ascent, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1997.
Five poems from the Chinese (translated with Cheng Baolin) in New Orleans Review,
Vol. 23, Nos. 3&4, 1997.
“The Civil War” in Laurel Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 1997.
“November (after Stevens)” in Books Ireland, No. 205, Summer 1997.
“Your Hand” from the Chinese of Han Dong (translated with Cheng Baolin) in Mid
American Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 1996.
Five poems from the Chinese of Xiao Kaiyu (translated with Cheng Baolin) in Trafika,
January 1995.
“Walt Whitman,” translated from the Chinese of Wang Ying (translated with Cheng
Baolin) in Northwest Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1994.
Ten poems from the Chinese by various authors (translated with Cheng Baolin) with a
critical introduction, in Another Chicago Magazine, 27, 1994.
Other poems in The North American Review, Ironwood, Carolina Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Southern Poetry Review, ACM, Sonora Review, Abraxas, Hayden's Ferry Review, Tampa Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Great River Review, Karamu, The Vanderbilt Poetry Review, Passages North, Midwest Quarterly, Minnesota Poetry Calendar, Kinesis, Wisconsin Academy Review, Blue Moon News, Translation Garden (China), Image, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters, Westview, North Coast Review, Translation (Columbia University), and other journals.
Poems in Wisconsin Review Anthology, 1981 Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, New Poetry Out of Wisconsin V, Upriver, and Wisconsin Poetry.
Winner, Minnesota Book Award, poetry 2004
Fulbright Fellow, Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Poland, 2003
Finalist, Bush Foundation Fellowship, 2003
Teaching-Scholar Grant, Minnesota State University-Mankato, 2002
Finalist, Bush Foundation Fellowship, 2001
Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, 2000
Runner Up, Lake Superior Writing Awards (nonfiction), 1999
Residency, MacDowell Colony, 1998
Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Grant, McKnight Foundation, 1998
Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre for the Arts (Ireland), 1997
Career Opportunity Grant, Minnesota Arts Board, 1997
Residencies, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation,
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1996-97
Finalist, Florida Review Nonfiction Prize 1996
Finalist, Missouri Review Editors' Prize (nonfiction), 1994
Finalist, Bush Foundation Fellowship 1994
Finalist, New Letters Literary Award: Essay, 1993
Finalist, Bush Foundation Fellowship, 1992
Fulbright Fellow, Sichuan University, China 1992
Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Prose, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1991
Winner, Outstanding Achievement Award, Wisconsin Library Association, 1991
Winner, National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, 1989
Winner, Associated Writing Programs Award for Nonfiction, 1988
Runner-up, New Letters Literary Award: Essay, 1988. Judge: William Least Heat
Moon
Winner, Michael Gutterman Poetry Award, Hopwood Committee, University of
Michigan, 1988. Judge: Linda Gregerson
Regents Fellow, University of Michigan, 1987-1990
Winner, Wisconsin Arts Board Literary Arts Fellowship, 1987. Judges: Robert
Creeley, George Garrett, Carol Muske
Fulbright Fellow, Jeonbug University, Korea, 1982-83
Finalist, Discovery Award (The Nation poetry contest), 1979 and 1980
Winner, Frank Stanford Memorial Prize for Poetry, Ironwood, 1979
SELECTED RECENT READINGS & PRESENTATIONS
Central College, Pella, IA, April 2006
Jazz and the Spirit, KBEM, Minneapolis, January 2006
Good Thunder Reading Series, MSU, January 2006
NonfictioNow, Iowa City, November 2005
Marshall Festival, Marshall, MN, October 2005
Banfille-Locke Arts Center, Minneapolis, October 2005
Soul Café, Minneapolis, October 2005
“UU Principles and the Creative Process” at UU Fellowships in Menomonie, WI;
Mankato, Burnsville, Arden Hills, Rochester, Bloomington, and Wilmar, MN. 2005-2008
Chippewa Valley Literary Festival, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, October 2004
Cameron University, Oklahoma, October 2004
Richardson County Community College, Texas, October 2004
“Celebrating Books,” Friends of University of Minnesota Bookstore, May 2004
Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony, St. Paul, April 2004
Backstage Pass, WCAL-FM, St. Olaf College, April 2004
Normandale Community College, April 2004
University of Wisconsin-River Falls, April 2004
Southwest Oklahoma State University, April 2004
Ferris State University, Michigan, March 2004
Panel: “Shaping the Manuscript,” Associated Writing Programs National Conference,
Chicago, March 2004
Friends of ACM, Chicago, March 2004
Good Thunder Reading Series, Minnesota State University, Mankato, March 2004
Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Poland, January 2004
“Jazz: America’s Art.” “American Thursdays,” American Embassy, Warsaw, Poland,
November 2003
Panel: “Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” Associated Writing Programs National
Conference, Baltimore, March 2003
Northern Michigan University, July 2002
Panel: “Writing About Jazz” Associated Writing Programs National Conference, Palm
Springs, April 2001
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, March 2001
University of Tampa, February 2001
The Jazz Image, Minnesota Public Radio, 2001
WEMU-FM, Ypsilanti, Michigan, January 2001
WBEZ-FM, Chicago, January 2001
To the Best of Our Knowledge, National Public Radio, January 2001
Lake Superior Writers, Duluth, MN December 2000
Good Thunder Reading Series, Minnesota State University, Mankato, November 2000
Panel: “Writings from the Fulbright Experience,” Associated Writing Programs National
Conference, Kansas City, March 2000
Panel: “Character in Creative Nonfiction,” Associated Writing Programs National
Conference, Kansas City, March 2000
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Minnesota State University
Assistant Professor of English, 1990-1994
Associate Professor of English, 1994-1998
Professor of English, 1998-
(Graduate): Creative Nonfiction Workshop, Contemporary Prose, Contemporary Poetry, Form and Technique in Prose, Form and Technique in Poetry, Poetry Writing Workshop, Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction, Research and Publication in Creative Writing.
(Undergraduate): Beginning/Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing, Beginning/Advanced Poetry Writing, Form and Technique in Poetry, Contemporary Literature, introductory courses in literature, film, and creative writing.
Marie Curie Sklodowska University (Poland)
Fulbright Professor of English 2003
(Undergraduate) Contemporary American Poetry, Contemporary American Prose,
American Film Genres
Sichuan University (China)
Fulbright Professor of English 1992
(Graduate): Contemporary American Literature, American Film
University of Michigan
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1988, 1989
History of American Film
Hebei University (China)
Professor of English, 1985-86
Modern Fiction/Poetry, American Culture, English Conversation/Composition
Jeonbug National University (Korea)
Fulbright Professor of English, 1982-83
(Graduate): Modern Drama, Modern Poetry and Poetics, Advanced Composition
(Undergraduate): English Composition/Conversation
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Instructor, 1980-82 and 1986
English Composition, Creative Writing, Critical Reading
University of Arizona (M.F.A., 1978). Program in Creative Writing.
University of Michigan (M.A. 1988, A.B.D., 1990). Regents Fellow, Program in American Culture.
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (B.A. cum laude, l975). Major in English.