Stephen Kimber

STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. His latest book— What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five (Fernwood)— is a narrative nonfiction book that tells the story of a network of Cuban intelligence agents arrested in the United States in 1998 for trying to prevent terrorist attacks against their country, and sentenced to long prison terms in the United States. While virtually unknown in the United States, they are heroes in Cuba.He is also the author of eight other books, including a novel, Reparations (HarperCollins, 2006), and seven non-fiction titles — IWK: A Century of Caring (Nimbus 2009); Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of a Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792 (Doubleday 2008); Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War (Doubleday 2002); NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan (Stoddart 1999); Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash (Doubleday 1999); More Than Just Folks (Pottersfield 1996); and Net Profits (Nimbus 1990). He is also co-author of the book The Spirit of Africville (Formac 1992) and the most recent updated edition of Thomas Raddall’s classic Halifax: Warden of the North (Nimbus 2010). Since 1983, he has taught journalism fulltime at the University of King’s College, where he currently specializes in creative nonfiction. From 1996 to 2003 and in 2007-08 and 2013-14, he was Director of the School of Journalism.In 2001, he completed a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction degree at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. He and his wife, wardrobe consultant Jeanie Kimber, live in Halifax. They have three grown children.