Roger Reeves | |
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 Reeves at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | Roger William Reeves January 1980 (age 44) New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Morehouse College (BA) Texas A & M University (MA) University of Texas at Austin (MFA, PhD) |
| Genre | Poetry |
Roger William Reeves (born January 1980) is an American poet and essayist.
Reeves was born and raised in southern New Jersey. He earned a B.A. in English from Morehouse College, an M.A. in English from Texas A&M University, an MFA from the Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. [1]
Reeves' work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review , Boston Review , Gulf Coast , Tin House, and The Paris American. [2] His debut collection of poetry, King Me, [3] was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was honored as a Library Journal “Best Poetry Book of 2013.” [4] His second collection of poetry, Best Barbarian, was published in 2022 by W.W. Norton and became a finalist for the National Book Award. [5]
Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, [6] a 2013 Pushcart Prize, [7] a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, [8] two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and two Cave Canem Fellowships. [9] For the 2014–2015 school year, Reeves was a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University. [10]
Reeves was an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois Chicago, [1] and is now an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. [11] In 2021, he was awarded the Suzanne Young Murray Fellowship at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. [12] In 2023, Reeves received a Guggenheim Fellowship [13] and a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. [14]
His book Best Barbarian was the winner of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize. [15]
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Roger Reeves challenges readers to become better versions of themselves, better for themselves and for others.
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