Dillard is best known as a poet, but he is also highly-regarded as a writer of fiction and critical essays, as well as one of the screenwriters for the cult classic Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. He is considered something of an institution at Hollins University where he has been since 1964, teaching creative writing, literature, and film studies. He is the winner of numerous awards for his writing. In 2007, he was awarded the George Garrett Award for Service to Contemporary Literature by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Richard Dillard's former wife is the writer Annie Dillard.

Bibliography

• 1966 The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele
• 1971 News of the Nile
• 1972 After Borges
• 1974 The Book of Changes
• 1976 Horror Films
• 1981 The Greeting: New & Selected Poems
• 1983 The First Man on the Sun
• 1988 Understanding George Garrett
• 1994 Just Here, Just Now
• 1995 Omniphobia
• 1995 Plautus's The Little Box
• 1999 Aristophanes's The Sexual Congress
• 2001 Sallies

References

External links

• Poems by R. H. W. Dillard