Monica Kidd

Journalist & Author

Monica Kidd is a multidisciplinary writer and award-winning journalist specializing in science and health reporting. Her work has appeared on CBC, where for seven years she reported full-time first on general issue stories, then as a national science reporter; her print features have appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic and Alberta Views. She has written eight books of poetry, non-fiction and fiction, most recently the novel The Crane, published by Breakwater Books earlier this year. She is at work on a reported creative nonfiction book called Holding Ground: The World’s Eroding Coastlines.

She lives in Calgary, where she also works as a medical doctor.