Stephen Reid (writer)

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Stephen Reid (born 1950 in Massey, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, who has also been convicted twice of bank robbery.

Reid began writing in 1984 while serving a 21-year prison sentence at the Kent Institution in Agassiz, British Columbia. During his sentence, he submitted a manuscript to Susan Musgrave, then writer-in-residence at the University of Waterloo; this developed into an ongoing correspondence, and Reid and Musgrave married in 1986 at Kent. Reid also published his first prison memoir, Jack Rabbit Parole, that year.

Reid was released on full parole in June 1987. He lived with Musgrave and her daughters in Sidney, British Columbia, teaching creative writing at Camosun College and working as a youth counsellor in the Northwest Territories.

Reid also struggled with heroin and cocaine addiction, and in June of 1999, he committed another bank robbery. He was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. He continues to publish journalism about prison life, and is reportedly working on another prison memoir, A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden, and a play, Heroin Elvis.