About Kimberley

Kimberley Tait was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and moved to the U.S. to attend Dartmouth College, where she was an English and Government double major and wrote her senior thesis on life as a staged performance in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her thesis—along with her experiences working at investment banks in New York and London—inspired her debut novel FAKE PLASTIC LOVE, published by Flatiron Books.

Kimberley wrote her sophomore novel BRIGHT STARS, to be published by Dogstar Press in September 2026, as a tribute to the 25th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, informed by her experiences serving on the 9/11 relief effort and her membership in The Last of the Innocents.

Kimberley is the recipient of a 2026 FAIR Artist Grant supporting artistic freedom and excellence that reinforces our common humanity. As an advocate for beauty, sincerity, and the human soul, she is part of a new Romantic movement rising above the age of algorithms. A Canadian, American, and Swiss citizen, Kimberley lives in New Hampshire with her husband and Welsh terrier Henry.

Kimberley’s great loves include:

Terriers with attitudes, bygone eras, book collecting, long-distance running with no devices, old jazz standards, escaping into the mountains, hiking, skiing, corresponding by paper, sharpened no. 2 pencils, symmetry, second chances, postage stamps, impeccable punctuation (shoutout to the em-dash—the LLMs will never curb my life passion!), cursive handwriting, melancholy playlists, gentlemanly conduct, my 1929 green Remington typewriter (who I call Basil), dreaming of The Time Before, marching to the beat of her own drum, and giving everything the old College try.