Melanie Reid

Reid was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and to people with disabilities.

Reid co-wrote actor Gregor Fisher's 2015 autobiography The Boy from Nowhere. A tie-in documentary, In Search of Gregor Fisher, broadcast on BBC One Scotland, followed Reid and Fisher during part of their research for the book. Reid's memoir The World I Fell Out Of was published in 2019 by 4th Estate (HarperCollins) and won the Saltire Non Fiction Book of the Year Award.

She was named 2011 Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards, and in 2012 she was awarded broadsheet Columnist of the Year. Her column generates hundreds of letters, emails and comments every week. In June 2014, Reid received an honorary degree from the University of Stirling "in recognition of her contribution to journalism, to disability rights and awareness, and for being an inspirational example of human resilience and dignity".

Melanie Reid MBE (born 1957) is a British journalist. Her weekly column for The Times' magazine, 'Spinal Column', is about disability and her life as a disabled person. She broke her neck and back in April 2010 whilst horse riding, and is now a tetraplegic. Following her accident she spent twelve months in the spinal unit of Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.