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Dr. Bill Hillmann is a full-time professor of English and Communications at East-West University in Chicago. He is the author of four books-the novel The Old Neighborhood, and The Burbs,and the memoirs Mozos and The Pueblos-and is writing the sequel to The Burbs. His writing has appeared at CNN, NPR, and VICE, and in the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Mail, the Toronto Star, and various others. He created the National College Story Slam competition, where students from across the country compete telling five-minute personal stories. Hillmann is a former Chicago Golden Gloves boxing champion and union construction laborer, and is married to Paula Andion Zabalza.
""What a tender big too-hearted tale Bill Hillmann has crafted in White Flight. I felt like I was between rounds with my gloves on while Bill Hillmann, my corner man, sang arias of pain and glory, telling me to brace for the next punch. A poet of the pugilistic arts, Hillmann writes of hood life with a street warrior’s soul."" — Joseph G. Peterson, author of The Perturbation of O
