Graduate Students
Prince Anthony Bush
Graduate Assistant, English
Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, TN whose poems appear in The Believer, The Cortland Review, The Drift, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati as a Yates Fellow, Prince Bush earned his MFA in from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop as a Truman Capote Literary Fellow.
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.