Kim Pittaway 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 a cohort director in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and 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. She is the former editor-in-chief of Chatelaine, a recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation (and an 8-time NMAF finalist), a co-winner of a Canadian Science Writers’ Association Award with her sister the journalist Tina Pittaway, and a finalist for the American Society of Journalists and Authors service writing award. She is a past president of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the National Magazine Awards Foundation.
