About Iain Reid

Iain Reid (born 1981) is a Canadian writer. Winner of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015, Reid is the author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2016) and Foe (2018).

Reid established his writing career by publishing articles and columns in national magazines and newspapers after graduating from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He drew the National Post's attention, garnering a weekly column assignment. In 2015, his work began appearing in The New Yorker.

Reid's 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. Charlie Kaufman adapted it into a film for Netflix in 2020.