Jeremy Reed

Education

Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing, University of Tennessee
M.A. in English, University of Montana
B.A. in English, Spanish, and Humanities, Valparaiso University

Popular Courses

Introduction to Creative Writing
Janus & The World of Publishing
American Origins
Remaking America
Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, & Poetry Writing
Native American Literatures
Counternarratives of Flyover Country
Creative Writing Honors Theses
Westminster Seminar: Storytelling in Word & Image: Graphic Nonfiction

Service Highlights
Advisor for Janus literary magazine
Advisor for Alliance student club
Organizer for English Department Writing Awards, Visiting Writers Series, & other events
Campus Organizer for the international research project Douglass Day
Campus Representative for Daniel Boone Regional Library’s One Read Program

Professional Interests

Jeremy Michael Reed is a poet, writer, editor, and teacher. His poems and essays are 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, and he has served in several major editorial roles for anthologies, literary journals, and small presses. An alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and UVA's Rare Book School, his research interests include creative writing, editing and publishing histories and practices, and American literatures. For more on him or his work, visit www.jeremymichaelreed.com

Personal Background

Dr. Reed joined the Westminster community in fall 2019. When he isn’t writing, researching, or teaching, he enjoys going to concerts, traveling, and spending time with his family. He lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife and daughter.