Stephen Reid (March 13, 1950 – June 12, 2018) was a Canadian criminal and writer, who was a member of the notorious Stopwatch Gang and was also convicted twice of bank robbery.
[8] Later in 1980, Reid was arrested in Arizona,[9] and began writing in 1984 while serving a 21-year prison sentence at the Kent Institution in Agassiz, British Columbia.
He lived with Musgrave and her daughters in Sidney, British Columbia, teaching creative writing at Camosun College and working as a youth counsellor in the Northwest Territories.
He became addicted to heroin and cocaine and, in June 1999, committed another bank robbery, in Victoria, British Columbia, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
[11] Reid won the 2013 Victoria Book Award for his second work, A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden: Writing from Prison.