Padre Spencer Reece has a BA from Wesleyan University, MTS from Harvard and a MDiv from Berkeley Divinity School, Yale. His first book of poems, The Clerk's Tale, won the Bakeless Prize, selected by Louise Gluck, in 2003. James Franco made a short film from the title poem. His second book of poems The Road to Emmaus will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2013.
Reece has received an NEA grant, a Guggenheim grant, the Wytter Bynner Prize from the Library Congress, the Whiting Writers Award and the Amy Lowell Traveling Grant. He will be working in Honduras in 2012-13 with support from a Fulbright grant. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Scholar and The New Republic.
He is currently the chaplain to the Bishop of Spain for the Reformed Episcopal Church, Iglesia Espaol Reformada Episcopal.