Roger William Reeves (born January 1980) is an American poet and essayist.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Morehouse College, a Master of Arts in English from Texas A&M University, a Master of Fine Arts from the Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.

[5] Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship,[6] a 2013 Pushcart Prize,[7] a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation,[8] two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and two Cave Canem Fellowships.

[11] In 2021, he was awarded the Suzanne Young Murray Fellowship at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

[12] In 2023, Reeves received a Guggenheim Fellowship[13] and a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.