Author Bio
• Birth—1981
• Where—Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
• Education—B.A., Queen’s University
• Awards—RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award
• Currently—lives in Kingston, Ontario
Iain Reid is a Canadian writer of two memoirs and a novel, who won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015.
Reid is a graduate of Queen’s University where he studied history, English literature, and philosophy. Following graduation, he established his writing career by publishing articles and columns in national magazines and newspapers. He drew the attention of the National Post, garnering a weekly column assignment. In 2015 he began appearing in US magazine and The New Yorker.
In 2014 Reid was one of six international young authors invited to teach at the inaugural Iceland Writers Retreat.
His first memoir, One Bird's Choice: A Year in the Life of an Over-educated, Underemployed Twentysomething Who Moves Back Home, was published in 2010, and was followed by The Truth About Luck: What I Learned on my Road Trip with Grandma in 2013.
His debut novel, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, an edgy suspense thriller, was published in 2016. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. (Adapted from Wickipedia. Retrieved 8/31/2016.)
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