So, why does a guy give his full name as part of an informal introduction? It's really pretty simple. Some things I do as Hubert, others I do as Edgar. This way, people who know me by either name will know it's me.

Hubert is the name I grew up with. It's the name I go by at work, at home, and usually among friends, unless they're friends made through my poetry or writing. In 1986, my writing took a change in style and content that was so dramatic I felt it was virtually another person writing it. It was: Edgar. So, I began publishing as "H. Edgar Hix." (Writing prior to that point is by "Hubert E. Hix.") Edgar's first published poem was a prose poem titled "Straw Man," published in Time of Singing. I've also published a few children's pieces under the name "Hubert."

Besides poetry & writing, my interests are my wife, theology, computers, books (especially theology, reference, and poetry books), watching people, visual art (from Manet to Playboy pictures), music (I love to sing but have never picked up an instrument), movies, and theology (possibly my chiefest interest; I'm a conservative Protestant [arguably Fundamentalist] but with a more open view of things than many and a shorter list of sins than most).

I am the youngest of six children and the only one to not reproduce (several times. . .). Right now, there's no real reason to tell you how many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, great-great, etc. that I have because I don't plan to update this page every month.