Background
He was born and raised in southern New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia.
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Roger Reeves
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In English from Texas Advertising & Marketing University, an Master of Fine Arts from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.
Career
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Morehouse College, an Master of Arts His work has appeared in, Ploughshares, American Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Tin House, and The Paris American. His debut collection of poetry, King Maine, was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was honored as a Library Journal “Best Book of 2013.” Foreign the 2014-2015 school year, Reeves is a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University. Reeves is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Achievements
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Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 National Education Association Fellowship, a 2013 Pushcart Prize, a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and two Cave Canem Fellowships.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Pushcart Prize; Whiting award
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.