Joseph Mungo Reed is a British novelist and academic who is known for his novels We Begin Our Ascent, Hammer, and Terrestrial History, for which he was long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Reed has also contributed stories and essays to publications including Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Evening Standard, Corriere della Sera, and Literary Hub. Currently, he serves as the Co-Director of the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge.