Creative Writing Reading Series: Rabih Alameddine and H.L. Hix
The Creative Writing Reading series presents Rabih Alameddine and H.L. Hix
Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine’s most recent book is the novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Grove Press, 2025), winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. His other novels are The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic, 2021), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Angel of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016); An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press, 2014), finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, winner of the California Book Award, and a Washington Post, Kirkus, and NPR Best Book of 2014; The Hakawati (Knopf, 2008); I, The Divine (W.W. Norton, 2001); and Koolaids (Picador, 1998). He is also the author of a book of short stories, The Perv (Picador, 1999) and the nonfiction work Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art (University of Virginia Press, 2024), which Publishers Weekly called “essential reading” in a starred review. Alameddine received the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025.
Born in Amman, Jordan, Alameddine grew up in Lebanon and Kuwait, lived in England, and then moved to the United States. He earned a degree in engineering from UCLA and an MBA in San Francisco before becoming a painter and novelist.
H.L. Hix
H. L. Hix earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas, taught for fifteen years at Kansas City Art Institute, and currently holds a joint appointment in the Philosophy Department and the Creative Writing Program at a state university in the Mountain West. His more than forty books include poetry collections such as Constellation and Bored in Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark; collaborative translations of contemporary Estonian and Lithuanian poetry, such as Terribly in Love by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė; essay collections and hybrid works such as Say It Into My Mouth; a novel, The Death of H. L. Hix; and anthologies such as the NEA-commissioned New Voices. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and held a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship at Yonsei University in Seoul. He lives with his partner, the poet Kate Northrop, and writes each morning in a converted barn to the sound of mice in its walls and raccoons trundling across its roof.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, Associated Students of Colorado State University, the Mary Crow and Deanna Ludwin Reading Series Endowment, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series, and other generous support. Learn how to become a donor and support the series.