about me
His work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the McCormack Writing Center, and the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He has had residencies with the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and he has been recognized as a featured artist by the Missouri Arts Council. His writing has been published in The Rumpus, Still: The Journal, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and multiple Pushcart Prizes.
He received a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where he worked as Joy Harjo’s assistant and editor-in-chief of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts. At the same time, he was a book editor for Sundress Publications and managing editor for When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. In 2025, he founded the literary organization accumulate/quiet as a home for literary publications and author support where he edits s w i f t s: a literary magazine and the forthcoming At the Center: On Books & Writing.
Currently an Associate Professor of English for Westminster College, he lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife, the writer and editor Ellen Orner, and their daughter.
a shorter bio:
Jeremy Michael Reed holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee. His writing has been published in The Rumpus, Still: The Journal, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. He is an Associate Professor of English for Westminster College and edits s w i f t s: a literary magazine.