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DC Reid

Author, Poet

DC Reid has published six books of poetry, one novel, and four non-fiction fly-fishing titles. Two books of poetry, Love And Other Things That Hurt, and, The Hunger, were shortlisted, in their separate years, for the Dorothy Livesay Award, BC’s highest prize for a book of poetry. He won the Art Downs Award in 2012 for sustained environmental writing on the science of fish farming, and in 2013, the Colleen Thibaudeau award for service to poets and poetry across Canada. Among his many other awards, Reid has twice taken silver in the Bliss Carmen Award. His work has been translated into Hindi, Chinese and Spanish. Reid is a past president of the League of Canadian Poets. Visit www.dcreid.ca for something completely different, and a fascinating title: The Brains of Poets that combines cutting-edge neuroscience and the minds of poets.