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this is an author bio & a headshot
Justin Phillip Reed is an American writer and amateur bass guitarist. His preoccupations include horror cinema, ideological failure, and uses of the grotesque. He is author of the hybrid text, With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood: A Horror Miscellany, released on Halloween 2023, as well as two poetry collections, The Malevolent Volume (2020) and Indecency (2018)—all published by Coffee House Press. Born and raised in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, he participates in alternative rock music cultures, ogles Toyota Tacomas, and enjoys smelling like outside. He writes for the Nu Metal Agenda, and his favorite band is Oklahoma City’s Chat Pile.
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this is a list of publications with links
Collections
With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood: A Horror Miscellany
Coffee House Press, Halloween 2023
Order
The Malevolent Volume
Coffee House Press, April 2020
Order
Indecency
Coffee House Press, May 2018
Order
A History of Flamboyance
YesYes Books, 2016
Out of print
Selected prose
Literary Hub
“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”
Oxford American
“The Black Girl Best Friends at the Survivors Party”
ANMLY
“Inadequate Vessels; or Simone White says, ‘A poem that doesn’t have its own mind frightens me.’”
Bennington Review
“Logic & Optics: Gothika (2003)”
& “Awaiting Acknowledgement: Alien3 (1992)”
Poetry Foundation
“In My Defense, Monsters,” Parts 1-4
Catapult
“Killing Like They Do in the Movies”
selected by Jonathan Franzen
for Best American Essays 2016
Catapult
"Melancholia, Death Motion, and the Makings of Marilyn Manson"
The Rumpus
"The Double Agency of Will Smith in Sci-Fi"
Selected poetry
The Adroit Journal “Insidious (2010)”
& “Black Swan (2010)”
The Columbia Review “The Truth of the Thing”
Cotton Xenomorph “An American Werewolf in London (1981)”
Flypaper Lit “So we got three things going. We got some grape jelly, some hominy grits, and an extension cord.” & 1 more
Foundry “When I Was a Man”
Guernica “The Hang-Up”
Jewish Currents “Thank god your horrors outweigh your manners.”
PEN America “The Bastard's Crown” & 1 more
Poetry “When I Was a Poet” & 2 more
The Offing “When I Am Queen”
The Rumpus “Leaves of Grass”
The Shade Journal “Head of Medusa” & 1 more
FEATURES & Interviews
St. Louis Public Radio Cut & Paste
The Steer Episode 3
Literary Hub Meet National Book Award Finalist Justin Phillip Reed
St. Louis Magazine "Girl, I guess there's glamour in it"
Poetry Society of America In Their Own Words: On "Consent"
The Shade Journal Shade of the Week: A Blues A Blues A Blues
Howlarium Living Your Truth: A Conversation with Justin Phillip Reed
Ploughshares Blog What Does Your Liberation Look Like?: In Conversation with Liz Mputu and Justin Phillip Reed
Howlarium Date a Creator
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these are previous appearances & engagements
Before time reading series, presented by the minnesota prison writing workshop
The Poetry Project
adroit turns ten
Poetry Day, Chicago
Ashland University MFA
In July 2019, the low-res MFA at Ashland University hosted Justin for a poetry reading and craft lecture as part of their Visiting Writers series. Photography by Allison Waltz.
Further: Troutbeck, Amenia, NY
Design Hotels, as part of their Further Thoughts initiative, organized seven poets into a reflective and engaging residency at historic Troutbeck in Upstate New York. Videography by Ian Clontz / Historia Photography.
Conversation Literary Festival, Southern U.S.
Comprising 16 poets of color, this weeklong fellowship program featured readings, workshops, and craft talks hosted in Oxford, MS, Tuscaloosa, AL, and New Orleans, LA.
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this is how you get in touch
For booking inquiries, please contact Laura graveline at laura@coffeehousepress.org.
