Gayla Reid

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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. All the Seas of the World and Closer Apart were finalists for the Ethel Wilson fiction prize in 2001 and 2002.

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

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

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Gayla Reid

Recipients of the Marian Engel Award

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 91761767 LCCN: n95035374 ISNI: 0000 0000 7397 1925

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Name	Reid, Gayla
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Short description	Australian-Canadian writer
Date of birth	12 May 1945
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