Kiley Reid

About Kiley Reid

Reid was born in Los Angeles, California in
1987 and raised in Tucson, Arizona from the
age of seven to twenty.She graduated from
Salpointe Catholic High School and studied theater
at the University of Arizona for two years before
transferring to Marymount Manhattan College.
She later graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Kiley Reid earned her MFA from the Iowa Writer's
Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote
Fellowship and taught undergraduate creative writing
workshops with a focus on race and class. Her short
stories have been featured in Ploughshares,
December, New South, and Lumina. Reid lives in
Philadelphia.