Gayla Reid

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

Biography

Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107051449 |title=CONFERRING OF DEGREES AT A.N.U. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=42 |issue=11,998 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=11 May 1968 |accessdate=21 October 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} 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. All the Seas of the World and Closer Apart were finalists for the Ethel Wilson fiction prize in 2001 and 2002. Come from Afar was published to critical acclaim in 2011. According to jury citation, Gayla Reid stands out for her stunningly beautiful language and her ability to depict places such as Canada, Australia, Vietnam etc. She also described a state of mind, an evocation of a particular character's relationship to land, people and time. Her fiction combines the poetry of language and observation with the force of highly accomplished and compelling narrative.{{Cite web|url=https://www.writerstrust.com/authors/gayla-reid|title=Gayla Reid - The Writers' Trust of Canada|website=Gayla Reid - The Writers' Trust of Canada|language=en|access-date=2019-05-08}}

Reid is represented by the Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency.

Awards

Selected 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}}
Come from Afar. Toronto: Comorant, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-77086-044-5}}