about me
He holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where he received several fellowships, the top awards in poetry and scholarship, and worked as Joy Harjo’s research and teaching assistant. Before that, he received an M.A. in English from the University of Montana, and a B.A. in English, Spanish, and Humanities from Valparaiso University.
His work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the McCormack Writing Center (fka the Tin House Writers Workshop), the Rare Book School, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. 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.
As an editor, he has worked on projects ranging from literary magazines to full-length books, with his most extensive past roles including serving as editor-in-chief of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, poetry 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.
He is an Associate Professor of English for Westminster College, where he has received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the Buschman Faculty Award, & the A.P. Green Fellowship. In 2025, he founded the literary organization accumulate/quiet which recently launched its first project, s w i f t s: a literary magazine. 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, including the anthology Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. He lives in Columbia, Missouri where he edits s w i f t s: a literary magazine and teaches creative writing for Westminster College.