Reginald GibbonsReginald Gibbons was born in Houston and grew up there. His novel Sweetbitter won the 1995 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Jess Jones Award for Best Novel, and was reprinted in paperback by Penguin, and then by LSU Press,and again in 2023 by JackLeg Press. Gibbons' two books of short/"flash" fiction are Five Pears or Peaches (out of print) and An Orchard in the Street (BOA Editions, 2017). He has published eleven books of poems, including Creatures of a Day (LSU), which was a Finalist for the National Book Award, and has won other awards, as well as writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, and a Fulbright fellowship (Spain). Read More Read Less