Kemp, Winston H. is an American investigative journalist and former structural engineer. Born in 1979 in Toledo, Ohio, he earned a B.S. in civil engineering from The Ohio State University and worked on bridge and transit projects across the Lake Erie basin before retraining in journalism at Northwestern's Medill School. His reporting on public contracting and industrial safety has appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Midwest Dispatch, and ProPublica, earning a Sigma Delta Chi Award and a Livingston Award finalist nod. He has taught longform reporting at Kent State, testified before the Ohio House on procurement transparency, and lives in Cleveland Heights with his partner and a retired greyhound. His previous nonfiction work examined life along decommissioned waterways of the Rust Belt.
