CX Dillhunt
Biographical Sketch

CX Dillhunt was born in Green Bay. The third oldest of twelve children, he grew up happily in DePere along the Fox River in the 1950s. He attended Sacred Heart Seminary (Oneida, Wisconsin) where he completed the Roman Catholic minor seminary training. He has a First Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and has taught American martial arts.

He has a master’s degree in children’s literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received his undergraduate degree in British literature and drama. He earned life-time certification in secondary English education. He also has a graduate degree in educational administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

He is author with his son, Drew, of the chapbook Double Six (Endeavor Publishing, 1994); his full-length book, Girl Saints (Fireweed Press) was published in December 2003.

His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals including Asylum Arts, Exquisite Corpse, Cream City Review, Calliope, Wisconsin Academy Review, Spoon River Quarterly, Assembling, Country Poet, Messages from the Heart, Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem.

His work also appears in Unsent Letters: Writing as a Way to Resolve and Renew edited by Lauren B. Smith (Walking Stick Press, 2002).

CX Dillhunt’s haiku are a regular in the international journal Hummingbird, where many of his prairie haiku and travel haiku from the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, China, Hungary, and Poland have appeared.

He works at the University of Wisconsin College of Agricultural and Life Sciences where he is the Director of Administrative Computing.



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