Photograph by Emily Royer.
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AboutJeremy Michael Reed is a writer, editor, and teacher. His poetry, nonfiction, and reviews are published or forthcoming in The Rumpus, Still: The Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere, including the anthologies Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writing and Mountains Piled upon Mountains: New Appalachian Nature Writing. He was a Tennessee Writer-in-Residence Fellow at Sundress Academy for the Arts in 2017, a position funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission, and his writing has been recognized with nominations for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net.
Originally from Michigan, he is currently finishing his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee, where he is the recipient of the John C. Hodges Award for Exceptional Scholarship, the John C. Hodges Prize in Poetry, the Norman J. Sanders Dissertation Fellowship, and the Richard Beale Davis Editorial Fellowship, among other honors. He holds degrees from the University of Montana and Valparaiso University. He lives in Knoxville, where he is the editor-in-chief of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, associate poetry editor of Sundress Publications, co-director of The Only Tenn-I-See Reading Series with Katie Condon, and assistant to Joy Harjo. |