Kit Reed collection

Kit Reed was born Lilian Hyde Craig on June 7, 1932 in San Diego, California. She began writing stories as a child, creating a series about a stand-up bunny by age 12. During Reed’s senior year at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland, the sisters allowed her to write short stories instead of a standard senior thesis because she disliked research. After her 1954 college graduation, she legally changed her name to Kit Reed to pay homage to her childhood nickname, “Kitten.” Reed’s first short story, “The Wait,” was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1958.

For five years, Reed was a reporter with the St. Petersburg Times in Florida then The New Haven Register. She received multiple literary awards for the juvenile court articles she wrote in Connecticut. She incorporated reporter characters into her short stories and wrote a few thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig. Her stories were published in many science fiction and fiction magazines with dark humor and dystopian themes. Reed passed away on September 25, 2017 at age 85. Historical information adapted from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/obituaries/kit-reed-dead-author-of-darkly-humorous-fiction.html (accessed February 2019)