Sweetbitter: A Novel

Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, and literary critic best known for his eleven volumes of poetry including Creatures of a Day (National Book Award finalist) and Maybe It Was So (Carl Sandburg Prize winner), as well as the novel Sweetbitter (Anisfield-Wolf Book Award). He served as editor of TriQuarterly magazine from 1981 to 1997 and as Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. Gibbons has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and NEA, and translated works from ancient Greek, Spanish, and Russian.