Justin Phillip Reed

Justin Phillip Reed is an American poet and essayist. He is the author of Indecency, winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is the 2019-2021 fellow in ceative writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His work appears in African American Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, the New Republic, Obsidian, and elsewhere. He earned his BA degree in creative writing at Tusculum College and his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Conversation Literary Festival, la Maison Baldwin, and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.