Graham Reid

Writers bio:
Born in Scotland and educated in New Zealand, Graham Reid travelled extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States during his years as a senior feature writer for the New Zealand Herald. He is a highly respected and widely read writer with columns, interviews and essays in the New Zealand Herald and various political and entertainment magazines.

Graham was previously both Entertainment and Books Editor at the Herald, but more recently his travel and political writing have won him considerable acclaim. A hallmark of his work is his ear for local music and eye for the arts, and a dry sense of humour.

In 2003, among other acknowledgements, he received the prestigious Media Peace Award for his articles on the volatile politics of the Solomon Islands. He is a regular contributor to the award-winning political website www.publicaddress.net and has a weekly travel column of unusual encounters in the New Zealand Herald. His website contains numerous travel stories, his biography and a list of journalism awards, photographs from his journeys, and some of his essays on music and art. He has stayed in luxury lodges and cockroach-infested motels and writes about them all with equal ease and observant wit.

He considers Asia, the Pacific, the United States and Europe his regular beat, and often travels for months at a time with no agenda other than to see what is around the next corner. It seems to have served him well; his first book Postcards From Elsewhere (Random House) won the Whitcoulls TravCom Travel Book of the Year Award in 2006.

He is currently a freelance travel writer living in Auckland, is married to photographer Megan Stünzner, and has three adult sons.
www.elsewhere.co.nz