Kimberly W. Heiman is a Senior Lecturer of Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA., where she teaches undergraduate courses in biology, conservation, and sustainability studies. She’s loved the oceans from a young age and pursued her passion with a BA in Biology from New College of Florida and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Her doctoral work examined the impacts of human habitat modification and invasive species on a central California estuary. She has co-authored numerous scientific papers. 

Kimberly has sat on many non-profit boards offering her scientific expertise to church mission groups, Friends of Allentown Parks, and organizations promoting native plant gardening. She spent ten years on a charter school board, four and a half as its president, navigating the shifting CDC pandemic guidelines for schools. 

As her pandemic coping strategy, she began creative writing in 2021 and is currently enrolled in the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, earning her MA in 2025 and will be completing her MFA in 2026. Her creative nonfiction essay “Quaking” was published in the International Human Rights Arts Movement Literary Magazine (2024), ”Tidepool” is forthcoming in Modest Magazine, and “Sea Sparkle” is forthcoming in CrayfishMag. All three of these essays are part of her first full-length creative non-fiction book, Birds are Stupid (currently querying). She has also published fiction in Flash Fiction Magazine and sold a story for production on Creepy Podcast. Her work has been nominated for the Best American Short Story Anthology.  

She is currently working a narrative craft book for scientists and a science fiction series.