title: Hollis Summers
text: # Hollis Summers
  
  Hollis S. Summers Jr. (June 21, 1916 – November 14, 1987) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.
  
  ## Background and education
  
  Born on June 21, 1916, in Eminence, Kentucky, Summers earned an A.B in English from Georgetown College in 1937, an M.A. from Middlebury College in 1943 and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1949.
  
  ## Academic career
  
  Summers worked in a variety of educational settings. From 1937 to 1944, he taught as an English teacher at Holmes High School in Covington, Kentucky. From 1944 to 1949, Summers worked at Georgetown College. And from 1949 to 1959, he served as Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Summers spent the majority of his academic career at Ohio University where he worked from 1959 until his retirement.
  
  