Reece, Spencer

Spencer Reece is a poet and priest. His first collection, "The Clerk s Tale", won the Bakeless Prize in 2003. He has received an NEA grant, a Guggenheim grant, the Witter Bynner Prize from the Library Congress, a Whiting Writers Award, and the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship. His poems have been published in "The New Yorker", "Poetry", "The American Scholar", and "The New Republic". He served at the Honduran orphanage Our Little Roses, and works for the Bishop of Spain at the Reformed Episcopal Church, Iglesia Espanola Reformada Episcopal.