F.D. Reeve is a novelist, poet, essayist, translator, and academic who has had a long creative career. He accompanied Robert Frost to Russia in 1962 as translator for Frost’s meeting with Nikita Krushchev. For forty years, Reeve taught English and Russian literature at Wesleyan University, with occasional visiting posts at Oxford, Columbia, and Yale. 

Reeve was a founding editor of Poetry Review, secretary of Poet’s House, and an officer of the Poetry Society of America. He is the recipient of the Golden Rose Award from the New England Poetry Club, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a D. Lit from New England College.

F.D. Reeve first visited Vermont when John Atherton and Norman Rockwell were painting. Forty years ago, he bought his first house in Vermont, and now lives in an old farmhouse in Wilmington, Vermont.