about me
He holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where he was editor-in-chief of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts and assistant to Joy Harjo. His work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in Poetry, the McCormack Writing Center in Fiction (formerly the Tin House Writer Workshop), the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, nominated for Best of the Net and multiple Pushcart Prizes, and recognized by the Missouri Arts Council.
His writing has been published in Annulet, The Rumpus, Still: The Journal, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere, including the anthology Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. An experienced editor of literary magazines, full-length books, and an anthology, he is the founding editor of s w i f t s: a literary magazine and 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 lives in Columbia, Missouri where he edits s w i f t s: a literary magazine and teaches creative writing for Westminster College.