about me

Jeremy Michael Reed is a writer, editor, and teacher. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where he received several fellowships, was awarded the top prizes in poetry and scholarly writing, founded multiple reading series, served as editor-in-chief of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, and worked as Joy Harjo’s assistant.

His work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the McCormack Writing Center, and the Rare Book School. His writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and multiple Pushcart Prizes, recognized by the Missouri Arts Council, and published in The Rumpus, Still: The Journal, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere, including the anthology Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (West Virginia University Press).

He is now an Associate Professor of English for Westminster College. In 2025, he founded the literary organization accumulate/quiet which launched its first project, s w i f t s: a literary magazine, in 2026. He lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife Ellen Orner, a nonfiction writer and associate editor for The Missouri Review. Their daughter thinks everyone’s parents must read books.

a shorter bio:

Jeremy Michael Reed’s writing has been published in The Rumpus, Still: The Journal, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Columbia, Missouri where he edits s w i f t s: a literary magazine and teaches creative writing for Westminster College.