Iain Reid

Iain Reid (b. ca. 1980) is a Canadian writer, who won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015.

Reid established his writing career by publishing articles and columns in national magazines and newspapers following his college graduation. He drew the attention of the National Post, garnering a weekly column assignment. In 2015 he began appearing in US magazine The New Yorker.

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, was published in 2016.

He lives in Kingston, Ontario.