Graduate Students
Dustin Robert Fisher
English
Justin Michael Reed
Graduate Assistant, English
Justin Reed received his B.A. from Cornell, his M.F.A. from Florida State, and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. Justin’s creative and critical work has been published in The Iowa Review, Epoch, Consequence, Post Road, Flash, and elsewhere. His fiction received a special mention in the 2019 Pushcart Prize, and his stories have won the Hatfield/Westheimer Short Story Prize and been runners-up for the Lex Allen Prize and the George Harmon Coxe Award. He is also a recipient of a Literature Artist Fellowship grant through the Somerville Arts Council, and his work has been funded through the University of Cincinnati’s Research Council and the Taft Research Center. Justin has been an assistant fiction editor for Consequence Magazine, a senior reader for Harvard Review, and a lecturer at Tufts University.