Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Richard Hague's essays and stories reveal a life along the edge of industry and Nature in the industrial Ohio Valley. Nominated for a National Book Award and a Finalist for the Associated Writing Program's Creative Nonfiction Award.

Author City: Cincinnatti, OH USA

Richard Hague, award winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer, was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, and has lived alone during summers in a trailer in rural Monroe County, Ohio. He has thus experienced two distinct settings of Appalachian life—polluted mill town and isolated country ridge. His stories in LEARNING HOW (Bottom Dog Press, 2011) arise from the cultural, economic, and political constructs he encountered there. Hague's other books include the poetry collections Public Hearings (WordTech Communications, 2009) and ALIVE IN HARD COUNTRY (Bottom Dog Press, 2003), and the National Book Award nominated prose collection MILLTOWN NATURAL: ESSAYS AND STORIES FROM A LIFE (Bottom Dog Press, 1997).