STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of the university's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels (The Sweetness in the Lime and Reparations) and eleven books of non-fiction, including Bitcoin Widow with Jennifer Robertson; Sailors, Slackers, and Blind Pigs; and Flight 111. Sailors, Slackers, and Blind Pigs won the Dartmouth Book Award, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Award for Nonfiction, and a Torgi Award for its portrayal of Halifax dujring World War II. His writing has appeared in almost all Canadian publications. He lives in Halifax.