Gayla Reid

Gayla Reid

Gayla Reid (born 12 May 1945) is an Australian-born Canadian writer.

Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of British Columbia. Remaining in Canada, she was active in the country's feminist movement, editing the newspaper "Kinesis" and the literary journal "Room of One's Own" and teaching women's studies at Vancouver Community College.

She began publishing fiction in the early 1990s, winning the Journey Prize in 1993 for her short story "Sister Doyle's Men". In 1994, she published her first short story collection, "To Be There With You", which was a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1995.

Reid was named winner of the Marian Engel Award for 2005.

elected bibliography

* "To Be There With You." Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1994.
* "All the Seas of the World." Toronto: Stoddart, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7737-3280-3
* "Closer Apart." Toronto: Stoddart, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7737-3337-4

External links

* [http://www.gaylareid.com/ Gayla Reid]


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