about me
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, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. 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.
Currently, he is 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 is an Associate Professor of English for Westminster College, and he lives in Columbia, Missouri.