Rick Newby

Born in Kalispell, Montana, and educated at the University of Montana, Rick Newby is an award-winning poet, cultural journalist, independent scholar, and editor. Rick is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky; An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers' Project; and The New Montana Story. He is also editor of Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates (with Lee Rostad); Notes for a...See more

Born in Kalispell, Montana, and educated at the University of Montana, Rick Newby is an award-winning poet, cultural journalist, independent scholar, and editor. Rick is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky; An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers' Project; and The New Montana Story. He is also editor of 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; and The Whole Country was . . . "One Robe" The Little Shell Tribe's America, by Nicholas C. P. Vrooman. Rick writes regularly about modern and contemporary art, and his essays on ceramic artists, painters, sculptors, and photographers have appeared widely. Rick's most recent book on a visual artist is the monograph Theodore Waddell - My Montana: Paintings & Sculpture, 1959-2016 (2018).Rick's books of poetry include A Radiant Map of the; The Man in the Green Loden Overcoat, with artist Jack Jasper (1983); Old Friends Walking in the Mountains (1994); The Suburb of Long Suffering (2002); 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 (2008).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. 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. See less