Kim Balfour is a Perth-based writer and former professional dancer. Since 2008, she has produced performing arts writing and criticism for The West Australian newspaper and Seesaw Magazine. Kim's writing portfolio also includes articles on science and technology, and she currently works as a freelance grants consultant for arts and LGBTIQA+ organisations. For the 2019 and 2020 Perth Fringe festivals, Kim and co-producer Lauren Amos, created two award-winning art-science machine learning installations. In 2020, Kim was selected as a writer-in-residence at the Centre for Stories, where she commenced work on a creative nonfiction book on gender identity and expression in the performing arts.