She currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband. Reid is currently at work on a screenplay for the film adaptation of Such a Fun Age. The novel was published in 2019 and received high praise from critics in addition to being longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020, it won the International Book of the year at the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards.
She began to write her first novel, Such a Fun Age, as she applied to graduate school. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, December, and New South, among other literary journals. Reid eventually earned a graduate degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Reid worked numerous jobs to support herself through college, including nannying and babysitting for wealthy Manhattan families-experiences she undoubtedly drew from years later, when she began writing Such a Fun Age. She studied acting at Marymount Manhattan College. Kiley Reid was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1987 and spent most of her childhood in Tucson, Arizona.
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