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. The novel, inspired in part by the 2008 murder of gay teenager Lawrence Fobes King, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014. Its launch was marked with a national book tour with Vivek Shraya, who was simultaneously promoting her new book She of the Mountains. In 2015, Reid became adjunct professor of Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults at the University of British Columbia.

Reid is a former blogger and columnist for Xtra Vancouver. It was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult Literature at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards, and for Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award.

Works When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014, ) Kens Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2018 Followers Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2020