SWIMMING FOR MY LIFE
"Fairley’s pure, raw honesty keeps you wanting to read page after page as she starts to question whether she is living her dream or someone else’s.”
--Dara Torres, 12x Olympic medalist, Swimming, Author, Broadcaster, Model
Kim Fairley chronicles her experience during the early years of Title IX and sorts through the lifelong impact of the backbreaking and sometimes soul-crushing work of competitive swimming.
The book is published by She Writes Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Book cover design by Elke Barter Design
Kim Fairley is an artist and memoirist based in Michigan who writes about wrestling with secrets and the power of dealing with trauma. Her most recent memoir, Swimming for My Life, chronicles her experience as a competitive swimmer during the early years of Title IX.
She has written two other books: Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir and Boreal Ties: Photographs and Two Diaries of the 1901 Peary Relief Expedition.
She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA in mixed media from the University of Michigan.
See Kim Fairley's interview in Authority Magazine
