Vol 3 No 1 2009
CX Dillhunt was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and grew up happily with his five sisters and six brothers in a big house near the Fox River which flows north into Lake Michigan’s Green Bay.
He is the author of Things I’ve Never Told Anyone (Parallel Press, 2007) and Girl Saints (Fireweed Press, 2004). He is co-author with his son, Drew, of the chapbook Double Six (Endeavor, 1994), and co-editor of Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar: 2006.
CX Dillhunt’s haiku are a regular in the international
journal Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem, where many of his
prairie haiku and travel haiku from the Mexico, Czech Republic, Costa Rica,
China, Hungary, Poland, Thailand, and Cambodia are published. His
poems have also appeared in many other American magazines and journals
including Asylum Arts, Wisconsin Academy Review, Exquisite Corpse, Cream
City Review, Calliope, Spoon River Quarterly, Assembling, and Wisconsin
People and Ideas.
He did his undergraduate studies in English literature and world drama; his
graduate work included a master’s degree in children’s literature and educational
technology. CX Dillhunt is a director emeritus at the University
of Wisconsin College of Agricultural and Life Sciences where he served
as the Director of Computing.
CX Dillhunt has taught conversational English and American poetry at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China (summer 2005 and fall 2006). He has also been to China as part of UW-Madison’s Visiting Scholar program and as a member of the City of Madison's cooperative sister city program. He volunteers as a tutor and a poet in the area public schools, works with the Literacy Network as an ESL/ELL instructor, and teaches writing at Elderhostel.
He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Kathy Koegel.
