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NEA Discipline Directors
Jon Parrish Peede was appointed Director of Literature, Grants Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts in July 2007. In this position, he manages applications, panels, and grant awards for literature fellowships, as well as grant awards for literary presses, magazine, and organizations. Previously, he served as Counselor to the Chairman. Peede also is director of the NEA National Initiative, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, a unique program that preserves the stories of U.S. military personnel who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and their families. This groundbreaking program has resulted in 55 writing workshops, an award-winning anthology from Random House, two documentary films, and a historic literary archive. Additionally he managed the NEA's Poetry Pavilion at the National Book Festival, wrote educational articles for the Shakespeare in American Communities and Big Read publications, and represented the agency at numerous literary conferences and governmental meetings. He has held editorial and writing positions as publisher of Parrish House Books, founding editor of Millsaps Magazine, editor in the areas of literature and history at Mercer University Press, and director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit. In addition, he worked as Director of Communications at Millsaps College where he managed the college's marketing, publications, and Web communications staff. He has published nearly 100 articles, essays, and creative works. Most recently he co-edited Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction. Peede graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.S. in English and from the University of Mississippi with a M.A. in Southern Studies. National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency |
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