About Rick

Poet, editor, and arts writer Rick Newby is the author of four collections of poems, A Radiant Map of the World (recipient of the Montana Arts Council’s 1981 First Book Award); Old Friends Walking in the Mountains; The Suburb of Long Suffering; and Sketches Begun in My Studio on a Sunday Afternoon and Completed the Following Day Near the Noon Hour on the Lower Slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

Rick is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky (with Suzanne Hunger); An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers’ Project (with Megan Hiller, Alexandra Swaney, and Elaine Peterson); and The New Montana Story. He also edited Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates (with Lee Rostad); Notes for a Novel: The Selected Poems of Frieda Fligelman (with Alexandra Swaney); and Roger Dunsmore’s On the Chinese Wall: New & Selected Poems, 1966-2018.

In the field of western studies, Rick is the editor of On Flatwillow Creek: The Story of Montana’s N Bar Ranch by Linda Grosskopf; The Rocky Mountain Region, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures; A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864, by Walter Cooper (illustrations by Charles M. Russell); and The Whole Country was . . . “One Robe”: The Little Shell Tribe’s America by Nicholas C. P. Vrooman. He is also the editor of the award-winning Crown of the Continent: The Last Great Wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, by Ralph Waldt.

Rick writes regularly about modern and contemporary art, and his essays on ceramic artists, painters, sculptors, and photographers have appeared in national and international journals and in numerous exhibition catalogs. Rick’s most recent book on a visual artist is the monograph Theodore Waddell–My Montana: Paintings & Sculpture, 1959-2016, which received the 2018 High Plains Book Award in the Art/Photography category.

A past member of the Montana Arts Council and the Board of Directors of the Montana Center for the Book, Rick served from 2006-2017 as the executive director of Drumlummon Institute and editor of the online arts journal Drumlummon Views. In 2009, Rick received the Montana Governor’s Award for the Humanities, and in 2016, he received the Montana Governor’s Award for the Arts.

Rick makes his home in Helena, Montana, and San Francisco, with his wife Liz Gans.

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Rick Newby
418 West Lawrence Street * Helena, MT 59601
1451 Montgomery Street #3 * San Francisco, CA 94133
rnewby@mt.net
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(406) 461-7494

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