This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Justin Phillip Reed
About
Justin Phillip Reed is an American writer and amateur bass guitarist whose preoccupations include horror cinema, ideological failure, and uses of the grotesque. He is the author of the hybrid collection With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood: A Horror Miscellany, as well as two poetry collections, The Malevolent Volume and Indecency, published by Coffee House Press. Born and raised in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, he participates in alternative rock music cultures, makes d-grade music under the moniker “wurstbrat,” and writes online for the Nu Metal Agenda. He is currently writer-in-residence at Clemson University.