Barry Hannah—novelist, award-winning short story writer, gun and motorcycle enthusiast—died on March 1 of this year. Hannah’s inaugural collection, Airships, made him an icon; his gymnastic sentences established him as a kind of literary acrobat. In 2005, he was the Endowed Chair at the Texas State MFA program, a time that unfortunately coincided with his battle against cancer. Below, his students remember him as a writer, a crazy person, and a teacher.