Jeani Read (February 12, 1947 – December 21, 2007) was a Canadian journalist and columnist and a pioneer in rock music criticism in Canada.
She started her career at Vancouver Province in 1973 and her socially conscious column immediately became a must-read.
In 1985, her columns were collected into a book called Endless Summers and Other Shared Hallucinations.
She died of cancer at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver on December 21, 2007, aged 60, and was survived by her husband, playwright Michael Mercer, her father and a brother.
Jeani Read and her husband Michael Mercer set up a $20,000 fellowship called " Jeani Read-Michael Mercer Fellowship for Journalism Students" to encourage students to continue their journalism career.