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Reginald Gibbons

Mailing Address:
1428 Crain St.
Evanston, IL  60202

County: Cook

E-mail: rgibbons@nwu.edu

Phone: work: 847.847.1545 home: 847.869.2558 fax:  847.328.6744

Genre: Poetry/Fiction/Creative Non-fiction

Periodical Publications:

  • Recent poetry and fiction have appeared in such journals as American Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, Story Quarterly, Literary Imagination, Southern Review, Missouri Review, others.

    Book Publications
  • It's Time(poems), LSU Press, 2002
  • Euripides, Bakkhai (translations), Oxford, 2001
  • Homage to Longshot O'Leary (poems), Holy Cow! Press, 1999
  • Sparrow: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, 1997
  • Sweetbitter (novel), Penguin, 1996
  • Maybe It Was So (poems), University of Chicago Press, 1991
  • Others

Forthcoming Publications:

  • Translation with Charles Segal of Sophocles' Antigone, Oxford University Press, 2002

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • NEA Fellowship
  • Anisfield -Wolf Book Award (for Sweetbitter)
  • Jesse Jones Award for Best Novel (for Sweetbitter)
  • Pushcart Prize
  • Best American Poetry 1996
  • Carl Sandburg Award
  • others

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

  • Warren Wilson College, Summer residency, MFA Program for Writers,July 2002
  • Michigan City Public Library, October 2002
  • Bridge magazine (Chicago), November 2002

Recent Workshops:

  • Poetry & fiction workshop, Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC),MFA Program for Writers, July 2002

Present Employment:

  • Professor of English, Northwestern University

Preferred Audience:

  • All audiences

Willing to travel:

  • yes
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