Richard Hague born 1947 is an American poet and writer.Born August 7, he was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, in Appalachian Ohio s Steel Valley, where he worked summers for Wheeling Steel and the Penn Central Railroad He studied as a high school student at Northwestern University s Summer High School Journalism Institute and as an adult in Oxford, England on a six week NEH Seminar His BS and MA degrees in English are from Xavier University in Cincinnati He continues to teach writing to adults and young people in Cincinnati He is former Chair of the English Department at Purcell Marian High School where the Writing Program he designed and administered won the National First Prize in The English Speaking Union Excellence in English Award in 1994.