Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of the poetry collections Doggerel (W. W. Norton, 2025); Redaction (W. W. Norton, 2023), with visual artist Titus Kaphar; Felon (W. W. Norton, 2019), winner of a 2020 NAACP Image Award and an American Book Award; Bastards of the Reagan Era (Four Way Books, 2015); and Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), which won the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award.

Betts is also the recipient of a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was an Emerson Fellow at New America, and is a PhD candidate at Yale Law School. He lives in New Haven.