Monica Kidd

Monica Kidd is an award-winning author specializing in science, environmental and health reporting, and a multi-disciplinary writer. As well as in The Independent, her journalism has appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Alberta Views, and The Toronto Star, and she formerly reported for CBC Radio in St. John’s. Her most recent book of poetry, Chance Encounters with Wild Animals (Gaspereau Press, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2020 Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson award. Her third novel, The Crane, is forthcoming from Breakwater Books in 2025, and she is at work on a reported creative nonfiction book about the impacts of coastline erosion globally. She works as family doctor and divides her time between Calgary and St. John’s.