About

Richard Hermes is a lecturer at Southern Methodist University, where he teaches courses in creative writing and literature, and serves as the director of the new Hughes Fellowships in Creative Writing. His awards include New Letters’ Robert Day Award for Fiction, the Phoebe Fiction Award, Minnesota Monthly’s Tamarack Award, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and a Henry Luce Scholars fellowship to Thailand, where he lived for eight years. He has written for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Bangkok Post, Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, and Utne, and he was the editor-in-chief of the tenth-anniversary issue of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, which won the 2018 Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Minnesota.

Email: rhermes [at] smu.edu