Kim Pittaway is a cohort director in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the past editor-in-chief of Chatelaine and Dalhousie University’s DAL Magazine. She is the co-author, with Toufah Jallow, of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement, which the New York Times called “riveting and propulsive,” and, with Dr. Samra Zafar, of Unconditional: Break Through Past Limits to Transform Your Future. She is an award-winning journalist with publication and broadcast credits that include Hazlitt, Chatelaine, Reader’s Digest, More Magazine, Best Health, Cottage Life, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, CBC Radio’s The Current, Tapestry and others. Her awards include a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for her contributions to Nova Scotia’s literary community and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation. She is a past president of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the National Magazine Awards Foundation.
