About

Jim Reese is an Associate Professor of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editor-in-Chief of PADDLEFISH. Reese’s poetry and prose have been widely published, most recently in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Paterson Literary Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Connecticut Review, and elsewhere. His new book ghost on 3rd (NYQ Books 2010) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in letters by New York Quarterly Books and was a Finalist for the 2010 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. Since 2008, Reese has been one of five artists-in-residence throughout the country who are part of the National Endowment for the Art’s interagency initiative with Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Reese and his family live in southern South Dakota, near John Wesley Powell’s one hundredth meridian — better than most determinants for where the American West begins.

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