English Professor Reginald Gibbons will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award, the organization’s highest honor, to celebrate his lifetime of achievements.
Gibbons’ prolific writing career has included the publication of ten full-length poetry collections, a short story collection, a novel, numerous essays, reviews, columns, and translations. He is an expert in poetry and poetics (both ancient and modern), the translation of poetry, and creative writing, and he specializes in American 20th-century literature and classical/biblical works.
His work has earned many prestigious literary honors, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, and the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2004 O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize. Gibbons will become the tenth Chicago author to receive the Fuller Award for his achievements as an author, scholar, teacher, and institution builder.
During his time at Northwestern, Gibbons has served as editor of TriQuarterly magazine, an international journal of new writing, art, and cultural inquiry published at Northwestern. He also published special issues of writing from South Africa, Spain, Poland, and Mexico, and co-founded and edited TriQuarterly Books, an imprint for contemporary writing at Northwestern University Press.
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award ceremony will take place Sept. 30.