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.^[3] Its launch was marked with a national book tour with Vivek Shraya, who was simultaneously promoting her new book She of the Mountains.^[4] In 2015, Reid became adjunct professor of Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults at the University of British Columbia.^[5]

Raziel Reid
Occupation	Writer
Period	2010s-present
Notable works	When Everything Feels Like the Movies

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.^[6] It was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult Literature at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards,^[7] and for Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award.^[8]

Works

• When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014, ISBN 9781551525747)
• Kens Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2018
• Followers Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto 2020