About Alastair Reid

Alastair Reid is a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges.

Among his many books for children are A Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, and Millionaires (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.