Hoke P. Kimball

Hoke Kimball is from Wilson, North Carolina. After two years at Louisburg Junior College and a four-year Navy stint, he graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1980. He spent 30 years working in the Air Quality environmental field in Winston-Salem and Raleigh, ending his career after 8 years as Head of the N.C. Ambient Monitoring Section. He retired in 2009 and follows his interest in writing about history, especially the Civil War and the revolutionary era. He likes to do sculptures in the medium of clay and stone. He now enjoys family and friends and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In 2018, he and his co-author were given the Vitruvius Award for Creativity in Preservation Arts by the Atlanta Preservation Center for their book "Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America - 1607-1783". "Transitions - Collected Poems about Addiction and Recovery was published in 2018 but the poetry originally was written in the late 1980s and early 1990s. "My Heaven" was published in 2022 and is also a story about how family alcohol issues can affect a young person both then and later in life.