Reed's essay, a personal narrative, has been included in Wayne H. Drumheller's Fifty over Sixty and her poem, "Food," appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Lucidity Poetry Journal.
Betty Jamerson Reed, a native of Western North Carolina, enjoys playing with words. Her poems have appeared in Lucidity Poetry Journal, Living with Grief, and Friends Journal, as well as anthologies such as Echoes across the Blue Ridge, (2010), It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree (2016), as well as in the special "Signature (2016) " and "Windows (2017)" anthologies of River Poets. Two of her poems appear in Mountain Mist (2017)
