R. Nemo Hill

R. Nemo Hill is an American poet who was born in Massapequa, Long Island in 1955. Blithely eschewing academics as a youth, he chose instead for a teacher the contingencies of traveling with a bag full of books and a few cotton tee-shirts. A small solitary stone house on the coast of Portugal proved quite educational in this regard. Returning to New York in the mid-eighties, he had various free verse poems published in journals such as Sulfur, Mid-American Review, Multiples, and Blue Light Review. He has since then traveled frequently to Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, and more recently Thailand and Myanmar. In 2002 he published, in collaboration with painter Jeanne Hedstrom, an illustrated novel (Pilgrim’s Feather, Quantuck Lane Press) based upon the processes of medieval alchemy. 2004 saw the publication of a book-length poem, a narrative in heroic couplets, based upon a short story by H. P. Lovecraft (The Strange Music of Erich Zann, Hippocampus Press). His chapbook Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire was published by Modern Metrics Press in 2006. His most recent work, poetry and fiction, has appeared in such venues as Poetry, Smartish Pace, Measure, 14 by 14, Iambs & Trochees, Shit Creek Review, The Chimaera, Umbrella, Big City Lit, The Literary Bohemian, Ambit, and Ditch. His travel journal, Elsewhere, can be accessed at rnemohill.typepad.com.