ABOUT KIM CROSS

Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. A full-time freelance writer, she has bylines in the New York Times, Nieman Storyboard, Outside, Bicycling, Garden & Gun, CNN.com, ESPN.com, and USA Today. Her work has been recognized in “Best of” lists by the the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sunday Longread, Longform, Apple News Audio, and Best American Sports Writing. She teaches Feature Writing for Harvard Extension School.

A lifelong athlete, Kim has competed in at least ten sports, nationally or internationally in four: water skiing (first), sprint triathlon (fourth), off-road triathlon (eighth), and 24-hour adventure racing (not last). A certified mountain-bike coach, is certifiably crazy about fly fishing. She lives in Idaho with her husband and son.

Kim is also available for developmental editing, ghost writing, speaking engagements, and book coaching. Learn more here.

Kim’s first book, What Stands in a Storm, chronicles the biggest tornado outbreak in history, the April 2011 storm that unleashed 349 tornadoes on 21 states, killing at least 324 people. The book won the Fitzgerald Museum Literary Prize for Excellence in Writing and the American Society of Journalists and Authors nonfiction book award. A Barnes & Noble Discover pick, it was named one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2015 and was a finalist in the GoodReads Choice Awards. A starred review in Publisher’s Weekly noted its “detail-oriented reporting anchors a novelist’s flair for drama.” It has been selected for by two community-wide reading programs and is taught in high schools and colleges in at least four states.

Contact Kim Cross

Literary Representation:
Leslie Meredith
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
lmeredith@dystel.com