[3] Her father would command the submarine USS Grampus (SS-207), which was lost with all hands early in 1943, probably sunk by the Japanese.
"[4] Reed worked as a journalist for a number of years, including for The St. Petersburg Times and The New Haven Register.
She won awards for a series of articles about juvenile courts in Connecticut[4] and twice was named "New England Newspaperwoman of the Year.
[8] Reed's first short story, "The Wait" (1958), was published by Anthony Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
The New York Times Book Review said about her short fiction in 2006: "Reed has a prose style that's pure dry ice, displayed in dystopian stories that specialize in bitterness and dislocation.