Gareth Hinds is an American comic artist and author best known for his critically acclaimed graphic novel adaptations of literary classics. His works include The Odyssey (Candlewick Press, 2010), Romeo and Juliet (2013), King Lear (2009), Beowulf (2007), The Iliad (2019), and Poe: Stories and Poems (2017). While not a poet by vocation, his work translates classic poetry and dramatic verse into visual narrative for new generations of readers. His adaptations are widely used in schools and have earned praise from educators and critics for their imaginative fidelity to source texts.