Monty Reid (born 1952 in Spalding, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet.
He lived in Drumheller, Alberta, and worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and later at the Canadian Museum of Nature starting in 1999 (since retired).
[1][2] He has won Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times,[3] the Archibald Lampman Award,[4] National Magazine Awards, and is a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award.
[5] He was editor and publisher of a number of literary magazines, including The Camrose Review (later The Dinosaur Review),[6] The NeWest ReView,[7] and Arc Poetry Magazine, as well as of the chapbook press Sidereal Press.
[8] As a musician, he plays guitar and mandolin in the band Call Me Katie.