Reginald Gibbons

Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities English Dept., Northwestern University

Evanston, IL 60208

Phone:

847-491-7294

E-mail:

rgibbons@northwestern.edu

Website:

www.english.northwestern.edu/people/gibbons.html

Author's Bio

Reginald Gibbons is the author of ten full-length volumes of poetry, two chapbooks, a novel, two collections of short fiction, numerous translations and edited books, and a book about poetry, HOW POEMS THINK (Chicago 2015). He teaches at Northwestern University, where he is Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities, and for many years also taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

* Finalist, 2008 National Book Award in poetry * O. B. Hardison, Jr., Poetry Prize, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004 * Fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts * Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (for SWEETBITTER)

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews

Reginald Gibbons

reginaldgibbons.com

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Poet

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

Spanish

Born in:

Houston

Raised in:

Houston, TX

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Last updated: Aug 08, 2018