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Kiley Reid is an American novelist and short-fiction writer. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship and taught creative writing focused on race and class. Her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, was a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. She is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.

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Kiley Reid's Newest Book

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Come and Get It

novel · First published 2024

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick An Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads Pick From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students. It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue. A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion, and bad behavior—and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.

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Such a Fun Age

Debut novel and earliest published book-length work.

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Novels (2)
  1. Such a Fun Age

    novel · 2019

    A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising…

  2. Come and Get It

    novel · 2024

    A Good Morning America Book Club Pick An Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads Pick From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy…

Short fiction (1)
  1. Simplexity

    short_story · 2021

Frequently asked questions about Kiley Reid

Who is Kiley Reid?

Kiley Reid is an American novelist whose fiction examines race, class, money, and power in everyday relationships. She has also taught creative writing and served as a judge for the 2025 Booker Prize.

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Where was Kiley Reid born and raised?

Reid was born in Los Angeles in 1987 and raised in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to New York City for college.

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What influenced Kiley Reid to become a writer?

Before earning her MFA, Reid studied theater and worked for about six years as a New York City nanny. Those experiences informed her interest in childcare, emotional labor, race, and class.

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Where did Kiley Reid study, and what has she taught?

Reid studied acting at Marymount Manhattan College and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship. She has taught graduate-level seminars and workshops at Temple University and the University of Michigan.

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What awards and honors has Kiley Reid received?

Her debut novel was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, an NAACP Image Award, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She was also a judge for the 2025 Booker Prize.

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