Alive in Hard Country

Richard Hague was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, where he worked summers for the Penn Central Railroad and Wheeling Steel before graduating with from Cincinnati’s Xavier University. He maintains an occasional residence in rural Monroe County, Ohio. Since l969 he has taught literature, humanities, creative writing, and interdisciplinary studies at Purcell Marian High School in Cincinnati. The l982 winner of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Award in Literary Arts, two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowships in Poetry and a third in Creative Nonfiction, as well as The Black Swamp and Sow’s Ear Poetry Prizes, he is author of eight collections of poetry, including "Ripening" (Ohio State University Press, l984), "Possible Debris" (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, l988), "A Bestiary" (Pudding House Publications, l996), "Garden" (Word Press, 2002). His book of essays and stories from Bottom Dog Press, "Milltown Natural," was nominated for a National Book Award.Hague, Richard is the author of 'Alive in Hard Country', published 2003 under ISBN 9780933087835 and ISBN 0933087837.