editorial projects

In 2025, Reed founded the literary organization accumulate/quiet. Its name comes from the understanding that within every creative project and artistic life there are moments to accumulate, research, write, and gather as well as moments to quiet, let a project sit, rest, and let yourself recharge. a/q aims to create space and support for writers, editors, and artists through a variety of projects, including through the publication of new work.

a/q’s first project is s w i f t s: a literary magazine, launching in 2026.

Reed served as managing editor of the first historically comprehensive Indigenous poetry anthology in the United States, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, overseeing the initial research process by two teams of graduate students as well as organizing the decision-making and editing processes of the team of Native poets that collaborated on the book. The anthology was selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books that Help Me Through" in 2020 and won the Reading the West Book Award in Poetry and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. It is used as a foundational text in college classes around the country.

Here are some reviews of the Norton anthology project:

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In the same time period, he was editor-in-chief of the eleventh and twelfth annual issues of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts where he managed a team of more than forty graduate students to publish a wide array of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Before becoming editor-in-chief, he served in the roles of reader, reviewer, genre editor, and managing editor of online content.

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From 2018-2022, Reed served as assistant poetry editor for Sundress Publications, where he edited full-length poetry collections by Amorak Huey, Chera Hammons, H.K. Hummel, Letitia Trent, and Donna Vorreyer. In addition to editing books, he read book and chapbook submissions in poetry and prose and served on committees for their artist residencies, reading series, scholarship programs and more. You can see all the great work Sundress is doing now and purchase copies of their books here.

In addition to the above roles, Reed has served in various capacities for literary endeavors across genres, including the Frost Place Chapbook Poetry Prize, Valparaiso Fiction Review, the nonfiction section of Best of the Net, the Valparaiso University Archives, and more.