STEPHEN KIMBER, an award-winning Canadian writer, editor and broadcaster, is a Journalism professor at the University of King’s College.
A journalist for 50 years, he is currently a weekly columnist for the Halifax Examiner and a Contributing Editor for Atlantic Business Magazine.
He is the author of 10 books, including two novels and eight works of nonfiction.
His most recent nonfiction book—What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five (Fernwood 2013) — was long-listed for the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Libris Award as “Nonfiction Book of the Year,” won the Evelyn Richardson Award for Nonfiction at the East Coast Literary Awards in 2014, and was selected as the Cuban Institute of the Book “Reader’s Choice Award” in 2016 (Spanish edition).
His second novel, The Sweetness in the Lime, a love story set partly in Cuba and partly in Nova Scotia, was published by Vagrant Press in 2020. His biography of Alexa McDonough, Canada's first leader of a major political party, will be published in Spring 2021.
He currently serves as cohort director of the King's College Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program, of which he is also the co-founder.