Reed Stirling lives in Cowichan Bay, BC, and writes when not painting landscapes, or travelling, or taking coffee at The Drumroaster, a local café where physics and metaphysics clash daily. His Shades Of Persephone, published in 2019, is a literary mystery set in Greece. Lighting The Lamp, a fictiona memoir, was published in March 2020.Set in Montreal, Séjour Saint-Louis (2021), dramatizes family conflicts. The Palimpsest Murders, a European Travel Mystery, will be published in September, 2023.

Reed Stirling’s shorter work has appeared over the years in a variety of publications including Hackwriters Magazine, Dis(s)ent, The Danforth Review, Fickle Muses, The Fieldstone Review, Humanist Perspectives, and StepAway Magazine.