Iain Reid
Iain Reid is an Ottawa-born writer, who won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015.

Iain Reid is an author and memoirist. His debut memoir, One Bird's Choice, was published in 2010. His 2013 memoir The Truth About Luck was awarded the $10,000 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award in 2015.
His 2016 novel, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, is about a woman who, on her way to meet her boyfriend's parents for the first time, struggles to determine whether she's happy in the relationship. The novel is being adapted for a Netflix film by director Charlie Kaufman. His 2018 novel, Foe, is optioned for film by production company Anonymous Content.
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