Gayla Reid
Gayla Reid ( born May 12 1945 in Armidale, New South Wales ) is an Australian-born Canadian writer, the 1995 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and won the 2005 Marian Engel Award.
Life
Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, where both her parents worked in the local newspaper, Gayla Reid studied at the University of New England, the Australian National University and the University of British Columbia. Then she stayed in Canada, where she was an active member of the feminist movement, the newspaper and the literary magazine Kinesis Room of One 's Own issued and women's studies at Vancouver Community College taught.
By writing short stories and other fiction began in the early 1990s. She won the 1993 Journey Prize for her short story Sister Doyle 's Men 1994 she published her first short story collection as a book, To Be There With You, which was belonging to the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize win the following year.
Gayla Reid received in 2005 in honor of her literary work the Marian Engel Award.
Even after more than 30 years in Canada, they often return to Australia - partly thematically in their books. In addition to her fictional texts they developed further in the public legal education general explanation texts.
Work
- 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. Cormorant Books, Ontario, 2011. ISBN 978-1-7708-6044-5.
- A study of protection for battered women. (edited with Diana Ellis, Helga E. Jacobson and others), Woman's Research Centre, Vancouver 1982.
- Preparing information on the law: guidelines for writing, editing and designing. (edited with Richard Darville ) Canadian Law Information Council, Ottawa 1985.
- Keeping on track: an evaluation guide for community groups. (edited with Diana Ellis Jan Bramsley others), Woman's Research Centre, Vancouver 1990.
- Reaching your reader: a guide for field testing community groups. (edited together with Penny Goldsmith, Sidney Sawyer ) Legal Services Society of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1993.