GIBBONS, Reginald

GIBBONS, Reginald. American, b. 1947. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Poetry. Career: Writer. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, lecturer in creative writing, 1976-80; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, professor of English, 1981-, member of core faculty for MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, 1989-. Publications: William Goyen: A Study of the Short Fiction, 1991; Five Pears or Peaches: Stories, 1991; Sweetbitter: A Novel, 1994. TRANSLATOR: Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda, 1978; (with A.L. Geist) Guillén on Guillén, 1979; (with C. Segal) Euripides, 2001. POETRY: Roofs Voices Roads, 1979; The Ruined Motel, 1981; Saints, 1986; Maybe It Was So, 1991; Sparrow: New and Selected Poems, 1997; Homage to Longshot O'Leary: Poems, 1999. EDITOR: The Poet's Work, 1979, reprinted as The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art, 1989; (with G. Graff) Criticism in the University, 1985; (with S. Hahn) TQ 20: Twenty Years of the Best Contemporary Writing and Art from "Tri-Quarterly" Magazine, 1985; The Writer in Our World, 1986; W. Goyen, Had I a Hundred Mouths: New and Selected Stories, 1947-1983, 1986; (with S. Hahn) Fiction of the Eighties: A Decade of Stories from TriQuarterly, 1990; New Writing from Mexico, 1992; (with T. Des Pres) Thomas McGrath: Life and the Poem, 1992; (author of afterword) W. Goyen, Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative, 1994; TriQuarterly New Writers, 1996. Contributor to periodicals. Address: Department of English, 215 University Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.