John Reed Biographical Notes
John Reed served as a Military Intelligence officer during the Viet Nam era, in addition to other assignments in the U.S. Intelligence community.
He is the author of two novels, Thirteen Mountain, St. Martin’s Press, and The Kingfisher’s Call, Sourcebooks Signature series. He has edited two anthologies for Triple Tree Press, the 2001 MOTA short story collection, Truth, and, Dead on Demand III, an anthology of ghost stories. Other editing credits include, Piece by Piece, a book-length collection of essays by Northwest women writers.
He has also published numerous poems and shorter non-fiction pieces and is currently at work on a writing book, The Top Ten Mistakes Fiction Writers Make: And How to Fix Them. Reed works one-on-one with many writers through his editing and critique website: www.writerswelcome.com.
Reed has conducted writing workshops and seminars around the country for twenty years. He has been a presenter at the Maui Writers Retreat and a staff instructor at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. He has also done workshops for the Willamette Writer’s Conference in Portland, the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Conference in Seattle, the San Miguel Writer’s Conference, The Surprise Valley Writer’s Conference, and the “Adventures in Fiction” workshop in Zihuatanajo, Mexico. Reed developed the “Writers-By-The-Sea” workshop series on the Oregon coast where he is the principal instructor.
He has taught numerous creative writing classes at Lane Community College, including Short Story, Essay, Creativity, Screenwriting and Magazine Writing. His presentations are characterized by humor and high energy. His experience as a writer and teacher has helped many writers find their voice, polish their prose and market their work.
Reed’s poetry has appeared in over 50 literary magazines and journals throughout the U.S. and Canada, including: The Carolina Quarterly, Descant, The Old Hickory Review, Four Quarters, The New Mexico Humanities Review, Negative Capability and the Piedmont Literary Quarterly. He won the New England Review/Breadloaf Quarterly’s National Narrative Poetry Competition in 1985.
