Spencer Reece is the recipient of the Eighth Annual Levis Reading Prize for his collection of poetry The Clerk’s Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). He is the winner of the 2003 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, selected by the U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His poems appear in such journals as The New Yorker and Boulevard, in addition to magazines in Canada, Australia, and Britain. Reece is an assistant manager at Brooks Brothers in Palm Beach Gardens. He lives in Lantana, Florida.  

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