Meg Reid is the Executive Director of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the Publisher of Hub City Press, where she finds and champions new and overlooked voices from the American South, including Carter Sickels, Drew Lanham, Ashley M. Jones, and Anjali Enjeti. She is outspoken about the need for transparency and accountability in book publishing and advocates for a decentralized model, grounded in local communities.

She routinely visits workshops, MFA programs, and conferences to speak about independent publishing and also teaches annually at the Denver Publishing Institute.

An editor and book designer, her essays have appeared online in outlets like DIAGRAM, the Oxford American, and The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine, Ecotone, and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books. She was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch 2021 Honoree.

In addition to her work at Hub City, she also works with independent and university presses across the country in a freelance capacity, providing both covers and interior typesetting. She also facilitates production and printing for individuals looking to self-publish or print books for a particular purpose. Twitter @megireid.

Read interviews and profiles in: Poets & Writers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CLMP, Garden & Gun, Publishers Weekly

Published Work:

“Ghosts: An Outline.” DIAGRAM.

“Songs of Our Lives: Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘America’.” The Rumpus.

“Feeling and Sound: Houserocking with Hound Dog Taylor.” The Oxford American, online.

“The Last Waltz: Tall Tales and Unknown Beasts.” The Oxford American, online.

“A Heart Needs a Home: The Broken & Beautiful Language of Richard and Linda Thompson.” The Oxford American, online.

“Local Hero: Mark Knopfler’s American Music.” The Oxford American, online.