Richard Terrill's essays have appeared widely in such respected journals as River Teeth, Crazyhorse, Laurel Review, and New Letters, as well as in the collection Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz. Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Nonfiction. Terrill is also an accomplished poet. His three poetry collections include What Falls Away Is Always (Holy Cow! Press) and Coming Late to Rachmaninoff, winner of the Minnesota Book Award. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Jerome Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as Fulbright Fellowships to Korea, China, and Poland. He is Professor Emeritus at Minnesota State, Mankato, where he was a Distinguished Faculty Scholar, and currently works as a jazz saxophone player. He lives in Minneapolis.