About Reid Frazier
Reid R. Frazier is a freelance writer and radio producer. His work has aired on NPR and appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and several other publications. He frequently writes about science, medicine, the environment, and culture.
Before becoming a journalist, Reid was a door-to-door pie salesman in Southern France, a night-shift donut finisher in Pittsburgh, and a wedding photographer’s assistant in New York City. He was a reporter at the North Jersey Herald & News and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Vermont.
His stories for the Allegheny Front helped the radio show win a 2009 Golden Quill Award from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania for Continuing Coverage for its “Clearing the Air in Pittsburgh” series.
His story for the Allegheny Front, “Coal Country Ponders a Landfill”, won a 2008 Golden Quill for Best Radio Investigative/Enterprise Story.
He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Marijke, daughters Anya and Ruby, and Cleo, the curbside setter.
If you’d like to talk to Reid about writing for your publication or business, contact him at reid “dot” frazier “at” verizon “dot” net.