Roger Reeves is the author three collections: Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction and a finalist for the 2024 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism; Best Barbarian, recipient of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award; and his debut collection King Me, which won the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, a John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Among other awards, he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Whiting Award, an NEA Fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is currently a Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.