Kim Pittaway
BIOGRAPHY
Kim Pittaway is a writer, educator and publishing professional. She is an associate professor and cohort director of creative nonfiction in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of King’s College in Halifax. She is the co-author, with Toufah Jallow, of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement (Random House, 2022), which the New York Times described as “riveting…harrowing and propulsive”; and, with Dr. Samra Zafar, co-author of Unconditional: Release Your Past to Transform Your Future (Harper Canada, 2025). She is the recipient of the National Magazine Award Foundation’s Outstanding Achievement Award, and former editor-in-chief of Chatelaine magazine.
Kim Pittaway is a writer, educator and publishing professional. She is an associate professor and cohort director of creative nonfiction in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of King’s College in Halifax. She is the co-author, with Toufah Jallow, of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement (Random House, 2022), which the New York Times described as “riveting…harrowing and propulsive”; and, with Dr. Samra Zafar, co-author of Unconditional: Release Your Past to Transform Your Future (Harper Canada, 2025). She is the recipient of the National Magazine Award Foundation’s Outstanding Achievement Award, and former editor-in-chief of Chatelaine magazine.
PUBLICATIONS
Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement, with Toufah Jallow
Unconditional: Break Through Past Limits to Transform Your Future, with Dr. Samra Zafar
AWARDSFinalist, 2023 Evelyn Richardson Nonfiction Award (with Toufah Jallow)
Recipient, Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for outstanding service to Nova Scotia in the field of the arts, 2022
8-time nominee, National Magazine Awards
Winner, Outstanding Achievement Award, National Magazine Awards, 2016