Stephen Reid
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Stephen Reid was born in 1950, in Massey, Ontario. He began writing in 1984 while serving a twenty-one-year prison sentence for bank robbery. He married Susan Musgrave at Kent Institution, in October 1986. Reid was released on full parole in June 1987. He lived with his wife and two daughters, Charlotte Musgrave and Sophie Musgrave Reid, near Sidney, on Vancouver Island, and at their home on the Sangan River, Haida Gwaii. Until June of 1999, he taught creative writing at Camosen College in Victoria, BC and worked in the field of Restorative Justice, with L.I.N.C. and in the NWT with Dene and Inuit youth at risk. In June 1999, Reid committed another bank robbery after a long bout of heroin and cocaine addiction. He was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. He is working on a prison memoir called A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden and a second play, Heroin Elvis.