Jeremy Michael Reed lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife and daughter. He is an assistant professor of English at Westminster College where he teaches courses in creative writing and publishing, American literatures, Native American literatures, and cultural studies, in addition to his work organizing the campus reading series and as faculty advisor for the campus literary magazine.
He has presented his creative and scholarly work across the country, including at the Association for Study of Literature and Environment Conference, the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, the New Orleans Poetry Festival, the Pacific and South Atlantic regions' MLA Conferences, and elsewhere. Additionally, his work has been nominated for Best of the Net, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and he's an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
Originally from Michigan, Reed received his B.A. in English, Spanish, and Humanities from Valparaiso University. While he was an undergraduate student, he studied abroad at la Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico and backpacked over 500 miles through France and Spain. He then moved to Missoula where he graduated with an M.A. in English from the University of Montana and wrote a thesis on contemporary fiction. Finally, he received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee where he specialized in poetry and American literatures, wrote a mixed-genre dissertation, and worked as Joy Harjo's assistant.
He is currently working on several manuscripts that are interested in various modes of interrogating and practicing history-telling via poems, creative nonfiction, hybrid genres, and scholarly essays.
He has presented his creative and scholarly work across the country, including at the Association for Study of Literature and Environment Conference, the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, the New Orleans Poetry Festival, the Pacific and South Atlantic regions' MLA Conferences, and elsewhere. Additionally, his work has been nominated for Best of the Net, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and he's an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
Originally from Michigan, Reed received his B.A. in English, Spanish, and Humanities from Valparaiso University. While he was an undergraduate student, he studied abroad at la Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico and backpacked over 500 miles through France and Spain. He then moved to Missoula where he graduated with an M.A. in English from the University of Montana and wrote a thesis on contemporary fiction. Finally, he received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee where he specialized in poetry and American literatures, wrote a mixed-genre dissertation, and worked as Joy Harjo's assistant.
He is currently working on several manuscripts that are interested in various modes of interrogating and practicing history-telling via poems, creative nonfiction, hybrid genres, and scholarly essays.