Raziel Reid

Raziel Reid is a Canadian writer whose debut young adult novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.

[1] The novel, inspired in part by the 2008 murder of gay teenager Lawrence Fobes King,[2] was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014.

[4] In 2015, Reid became adjunct professor of Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults at the University of British Columbia.

[5] Reid is a former blogger and columnist for Xtra Vancouver.

[4] When Everything Feels Like the Movies was selected for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by blogger and broadcaster Elaine Lui.