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John Reed is the author of ten books, including the novels A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster/MTV Books), and the SPD bestseller Snowball’s Chance (Roof/Melville House); the play All The World’s A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare (Penguin/Plume); and the collection of sonnets Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems (C&R Press). His second collection of sonnets, Year of Valentines (Spuyten Duyvil), was released this year. His work has appeared in Tin House, Artforum, Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harper's, and Rolling Stone. His essay "My Grandma the Poisoner," originally published in Vice magazine, was selected for Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin). His works have been translated and performed worldwide; his films have been distinguished at festivals internationally. He is a two-term board member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Reed is an Associate Professor of Writing and Media at The New School, where he chairs the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, graduate certificates from the Parsons School of Design (in Digital Photography, Illustrated Journalism & Memoir, and AI for Creativity and Leadership) and a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from the University of Sunderland. He is the author of the academic work The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, and the Origin of Animal Farm (Palgrave Macmillan). He has contributed to Narratives of Upheaval in Higher Education in the chapter "Mills, a Women's College of Education in New York City, Fifty Years Later" (IGI Global, peer-reviewed and Scopus-indexed, 2025) and Alma Mater–Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (peer-reviewed, 2025) in the study, "Erstwhile Eden: Noguchi's 'Garden Elements' and The New School." He has presented at the conference (Re)Framing American Studies (Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 2025).