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). 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). In 2006 he was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. He is a professor and former director of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming.