Roger Reeves

Roger Reeves is the author of King Me, Best Barbarian, and Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. Best Barbarian was a winner of the 2023 Griffin Prize, the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN / Voelker Poetry Award, and the NAACP Image Award. Roger Reeves is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a 2015 Whiting Award, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, among other honors. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas.