Joe Mungo Reed was born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, England. He has a master’s in philosophy and politics at the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in creative writing at Syracuse University, where he won the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction. He is the author of the novel, We Begin Our Ascent, and his short stories have appeared in VQR and Gigantic and anthologized in Best of Gigantic. He is currently living in Edinburgh, UK.
Books in order of publication:
Best of Gigantic: Stories from the First Five Years, 2009–14 – 2014
We Begin Our Ascent – 2018
Hammer – 2022
Oak Lawn Library Friends 