About Kimberley

Kimberley Tait was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and moved to the U.S. to attend Dartmouth College, where she pursued her romantic and literary passions as an English and Government double major and writing tutor at the Composition Center. In 2001, Kimberley wrote her senior thesis on “life as a staged performance” in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, unaware that widespread performance addiction was on the brink of gripping society through the rise of social media.

Kimberley transformed her Fitzgerald thesis into her debut novel FAKE PLASTIC LOVE, published by Flatiron Books as a cautionary tale about staging life in the digital age. The novel drew on her experiences working at highly unromantic investment banks in New York and London and earning her MBA at Columbia Business School, generating more student loans in her quest to pay off her student loans.

Kimberley wrote her sophomore novel BRIGHT STARS, being published by Dogstar Press in September 2026, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of September 11th. A portrait of the dual losses of the 9/11 tragedy and the final vanishing of offline life through the eyes of four young graduates, the story is informed by her experiences as a Canadian expat who moved to New York to serve on the 9/11 relief effort, and her membership in The Last of the Innocents—the last human beings to experience an analog childhood.

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 founded Dogstar Press, a literary press that is helping preserve genuine literary art.

Kimberley is part of a new Romantic movement rising above the age of algorithms, and a voice for her forgotten subgeneration, The Last of the Innocents. A Canadian, American, and Swiss citizen, Kimberley lives in New Hampshire with her husband and Welsh terrier Henry.