Richard Hillman was the founding editor of the international poetry journal Sidewalk, and he was a contributing editor (SA) for Papertiger, the first Australian CD-ROM poetry journal. He co-edited Friendly Street poetry for Artstate (Arts South Australia) and Inside Art (The Adelaide Review) in 2000.
His poetry has been published in Australia, New Zealand, Romania, Germany, Canada and the United States.
Married, with three children, he has lived in Adelaide since 1995.