about me

Jeremy Michael Reed is a writer, editor, and teacher. His work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the McCormack Writing Center, the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the 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.

He holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where he worked as Joy Harjo’s assistant, editor-in-chief of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, 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 At the Center: On Books & Writing.

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 and At the Center: On Books & Writing.