Greg Hill – författare

A collection of poems by poet and critic Greg Hill exploring the intersections between poetry and the living world.

Adrenaline, avalanches, and addiction—I Could Die at Any Moment is the poignantly personal story about one thrill seeker's quest to live life to the fullest. 

Why is risking death worth it for adventurers? This is a question Greg Hill—Canadian pro skier, guide, and “The 2-Million Foot Man”—gets asked often. In this frank, open, and unflinching memoir, he does his best to provide an answer and bring some understanding and solace to his friends and family should he pay the ultimate price for his undeniable need for adrenaline.

Starting with his formative years with young, hard-working parents in the Eastern Townships of Québec, Canada, Hill describes his challenges with finding his place in a blended family, his desire to be seen and acknowledged, learning to live with the serious consequences of poor decisions, and looking for the love of a lifetime while building a career from doing the crazy things he loved most of all. 

As he matured and set his sites on higher peaks and greater challenges, he also developed an awareness for the care of the planet that he traversed so extensively. Nature is a force to work with, not against, and despite the adrenaline drive, Greg knows to keep his humility in check—if not, it will get checked for him. 

How does an adrenaline-seeker build a career doing what he loves and still have time to be an integral part of a loving family and lead a full and balanced life as a ski adventuring environmentalist? To answer this question for himself and those he loves, Greg opens up about hardcore life-altering decisions, survival as a reality he faces daily, and the gratitude he has for still being alive after experiencing everything from avalanches to world records. As he puts it, he could die at any moment…

A man is given the choice to either save or condemn the people of the Earth. Once the evidence is brought to light, even he may doubt his choice.

A dark retelling of the Rapture of Catholic belief, told through the eyes of a highschool teenager.

Detective Daniel Falcone lives in a world where mythical creatures aren't legends — they're neighbors, coworkers, lovers, and criminals. Vampires walk city streets. Centaurs wear police badges. Merfolk fight environmental collapse. And magic exists beside modern life. For Falcone, a witch detective working Special Investigations, most cases are manageable… until two teenagers die in what appears to be a brutal murder-suicide. But the evidence doesn't add up. The deeper Falcone and his vampire partner Diana Savina investigate, the more they uncover signs of something impossible: a force capable of overriding free will itself. As time passes and the body count rises, Falcone must find the source of this unknown magic before it forces the city he loves and protects under someone else's control.

Greg Hill ran public libraries for over 30 years, beginning in Seguin, Texas where with his job he inherited a weekly newspaper column. His predecessors journalistic efforts were limited to upcoming library programs and new books, and, finding that as tedious as it was limiting in appeal, he decided to describe in each column something unusual or interesting that arose during the course of a library workday. That item led to another, and that to another, until it finally linked back to the first one, and along the way he slipped a thing or two about reading, libraries, and books.Please note that Greg''s never received a penny of remuneration from the three newspapers he''s written for, since that would violate his professional code of ethics. All gross revenue from his books have gone to Guys Read Gals Read Inc and Fairbanks Library Foundation nonprofits. However, providing free copy to teh newspapers provided opportunities to get library programs covered, and so on.After a decade or so of composing these columns, he found that he''d come to appreciate, or even need, the writing process for several reasons. First, it allowed him to start and complete something. Successful library directors have to always juggle a couple dozen potential projects at various stages of becoming reality, knowing very few will reach fruition, and being able to begin and finish something can be immensely gratifying.Second, and most importantly, the writing process usually takes about three hours, and for that spate of time all the rest of the world drops away. It''s a form of thoughtful meditation that''s brought me great solace and respite.Third, the columns have led to meeting so many interesting, curious, intelligent, and delightful readers in which Alaska abounds.And as the local newspaper''s book reviewer said of Greg''s past anthologies, the brevity of each column makes them "perfect outhouse material."