Alexandra Kimball

Alexandra is a writer and editor in Toronto.  Her journalism and essays appear regularly in major publications across Canada, including The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, and Maisonneuve. She is a former Associate Editor at Toronto Life magazine.

Her 2015 Globe and Mail essay about the cultural politics of infertility, “Unpregnant”, was the newspaper’s second most-read article of the year, and was also nominated for a National Newspaper Award in the category of Best Long Feature. Her first book, The Seed: Infertility is a Feminist Issue, was published by Coach House Books in April 2019. The Seed received acclaim from outlets including Nylon, Bustle, The LA Review of Books, The Globe and Mail, CBC, and Rabble, among others.  Excerpts from The Seed appear in the 2020 edition of Best Canadian Essays. A Spanish edition, La Semilla, translated by Javier Saez, was published in 2020.

Her writing has been nominated for seven National Magazine Awards.