Joe Mungo Reed

Joe Mungo Reed was born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, England. He holds a master's in philosophy and politics from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University, where he won the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction. He teaches creative writing at the University of Cambridge and lives in London. He is the author of the novels We Begin Our Ascent, Hammer, and Terrestrial History, and his short fiction has appeared in VQR and Gigantic.