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Jeremy Michael Reed lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife and daughter. He is an Associate Professor of English for Westminster College where he has received the A.P. Green Fellowship, the Buschman Faculty Award, and the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. There, he organizes the campus reading series, serves as faculty advisor for the campus literary magazine, and advises student clubs, in addition to major service roles for the English Department and the college as a whole. His teaching and research interests are varied but interwoven, including American literatures, Indigenous literatures, literary and small press publishing, and cultural studies, as well as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scriptwriting, hybrid genres, graphic literatures, and translation.
He has presented his creative and scholarly work across the country, including at the Association for Study of Literature and Environment Conference, the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, the New Orleans Poetry Festival, the Pacific and South Atlantic regions' MLA Conferences, and elsewhere. Additionally, his work has been nominated for Best of the Net, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in Poetry, the McCormack Writing Center Workshop in Fiction (formerly the Tin House Writers Workshop), and the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, among others.
Originally from Michigan, Reed received his B.A. in English, Spanish, and Humanities from Valparaiso University, during which he studied abroad at la Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico. After graduation, he backpacked over 500 miles through France and Spain. He then moved to Missoula where he graduated with an M.A. in English from the University of Montana and wrote a thesis on contemporary fiction. He received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee where he specialized in poetry and American literatures, wrote a mixed-genre dissertation, and worked as Joy Harjo's assistant.
As an editor, he has served in several roles for a variety of literary organizations, including as editor-in-chief of Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, poetry book editor and editorial board member 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, the first historically-comprehensive anthology of its kind in the United States, one of Oprah Winfrey’s selections for 2020, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a foundational text in college courses across the country. In 2025 he founded accumulate/quiet press with its first project swifts: a literary magazine launching in 2026.
He is always at work on several things at once, currently including poetic hybrids, edited book projects, translations, and a novel.
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Jeremy Michael Reed is a writer, editor, and teacher. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where he received the Sanders, Wheeler, and Davis Fellowships, the Hodges Award in Poetry, the Hodges Award for Exceptional Scholarship, founded multiple reading series, and served as 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 Workshop in Fiction (formerly known as the Tin House Writers Workshop), and the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, nominated for Best of the Net and multiple Pushcart Prizes, and recognized by the Missouri Arts Council.
His 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 (West Virginia University Press). He currently lives in Columbia, Missouri where he is an Associate Professor of English for Westminster College. In 2025, he founded the literary organization accumulate/quiet which launches its first project, s w i f t s: a literary magazine, in 2026.
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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.