Gayla Reid was born in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, in 1945. A Vancouver resident, she works in public legal education. Her story "In the Water, Like This" won the fiction prize in the CBC/Saturday Night Canadian Literary Awards in 1994 and was published in Saturday Night (May, 1994). Another story, "Sister Doyle's Men," won the 1993 Journey Prize. Both stories are included in her collection To Be There with You (1994).