Creative Writing Series: Chiagoziem Jideofor & Gabriel Reed

The UT Creative Writing Program is excited to present a reading by poets Chiagoziem Jideofor & Gabriel Reed. The reading will take place Monday, April 12 at 7pm in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Chiagoziem Jideofor is Queer and Igbo. Her debut collection, local remedies, was recently published by Host Publications, and her poems have appeared or are scheduled to appear in The Hopkins Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review,Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, South Carolina Review, Waxwing, I Witness: Documentary, Witness, and Research-based Poetics, the minnesota review, Quarterly West, Callaloo, and elsewhere.

Gabriel Antonio Reed is a poet from New Market, TN. He is the author of Reach: A Poem, which Brenda Hillman selected for the 2026 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. He holds an MFA from Hollins University and a PhD from the University of TN, Knoxville. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, El Nieuwe Aca, Seneca Review, and Red Flag Poetry.