Roger Reeves
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Roger Reeves (he/him) is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. His book Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf, 2023) was a finalist for the 2024 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism. His debut collection, King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), was a Library Journal Best Poetry pick and winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His poems and essays have been published in journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, and Granta, among others. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 NEA Fellowship, a 2008 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. Reeves is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas, Austin.