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Friday, May 29, 2026
6:00–7:30 pm
Free to attend!
Sponsored by the Oregon Community Foundation. Please register in advance; walk-ins welcome as space allows. Optional donations are appreciated.
Join us for an evening with author Kimberly Warner, reading from her debut memoir, Unfixed. After the reading, Kimberly sits down for a moderated conversation with Julie Resnick, followed by audience Q&A and a book signing. Copies will be available for sale through our local partner, Cloud & Leaf Bookstore.
About the book
Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home opens with a midlife DNA test that reveals the man who raised Kimberly Warner isn't her biological father. That discovery pulls her into two parallel mysteries: the silence around her father's death, and the absence of the stranger whose blood she carries. As she traces her family's buried secrets, a second rupture surfaces in her own body, a mysterious illness that leaves her dizzy and unmoored. Told through lyrical prose and imagined letters, Unfixed moves across decades and landscapes, from a New Age 1980s childhood to the uncertain ground of midlife. Unfixed was a Publishers Weekly Editor's Pick.
About the author
Kimberly Warner is a filmmaker, author, and patient advocate whose work explores what it means to live fully in a body that doesn't always feel well. She studied pre-med and biology at Colorado College and trained in naturopathic and classical Chinese medicine before trading a clinical path for a creative one. In 2015, a rare neurological condition, Mal de Débarquement Syndrome, upended her sense of balance and direction. That experience became the seed of Unfixed, a multimedia platform she founded to amplify stories of people living with chronic illness and disability. Her award-winning docu-series, short films, podcasts, and essays all share one idea: that healing and brokenness can coexist. Her work has screened at Harvard Medical School and earned honors from the Invisible Disabilities Association, HealtheVoices, Rainbow Advocacy, and Life on the Level. She lives on a small farm in rural Oregon with her husband, David.
About the moderator
Julie Resnick moved from New York City to Manzanita full time, or as she puts it, from the Big Apple to the little apple. She and Kimberly met as next-door neighbors in Northwest Portland 15 years ago and share a love of photography and a commitment to giving voice to communities often left out of the frame. Julie created ZoomUganda, a PhotoVoice project that has traveled the world and was shown at the Hoffman Center in 2016, and co-created Reframing Re-entry with formerly incarcerated women in Portland. She lives in Manzanita with her British partner and Australian labradoodle, and on sunny days you'll usually find her on the beach with her camera.
Friday, May 29, 2026
6:00–7:30 pm
Free to attend!
Sponsored by the Oregon Community Foundation. Please register in advance; walk-ins welcome as space allows. Optional donations are appreciated.
Join us for an evening with author Kimberly Warner, reading from her debut memoir, Unfixed. After the reading, Kimberly sits down for a moderated conversation with Julie Resnick, followed by audience Q&A and a book signing. Copies will be available for sale through our local partner, Cloud & Leaf Bookstore.
About the book
Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home opens with a midlife DNA test that reveals the man who raised Kimberly Warner isn't her biological father. That discovery pulls her into two parallel mysteries: the silence around her father's death, and the absence of the stranger whose blood she carries. As she traces her family's buried secrets, a second rupture surfaces in her own body, a mysterious illness that leaves her dizzy and unmoored. Told through lyrical prose and imagined letters, Unfixed moves across decades and landscapes, from a New Age 1980s childhood to the uncertain ground of midlife. Unfixed was a Publishers Weekly Editor's Pick.
About the author
Kimberly Warner is a filmmaker, author, and patient advocate whose work explores what it means to live fully in a body that doesn't always feel well. She studied pre-med and biology at Colorado College and trained in naturopathic and classical Chinese medicine before trading a clinical path for a creative one. In 2015, a rare neurological condition, Mal de Débarquement Syndrome, upended her sense of balance and direction. That experience became the seed of Unfixed, a multimedia platform she founded to amplify stories of people living with chronic illness and disability. Her award-winning docu-series, short films, podcasts, and essays all share one idea: that healing and brokenness can coexist. Her work has screened at Harvard Medical School and earned honors from the Invisible Disabilities Association, HealtheVoices, Rainbow Advocacy, and Life on the Level. She lives on a small farm in rural Oregon with her husband, David.
About the moderator
Julie Resnick moved from New York City to Manzanita full time, or as she puts it, from the Big Apple to the little apple. She and Kimberly met as next-door neighbors in Northwest Portland 15 years ago and share a love of photography and a commitment to giving voice to communities often left out of the frame. Julie created ZoomUganda, a PhotoVoice project that has traveled the world and was shown at the Hoffman Center in 2016, and co-created Reframing Re-entry with formerly incarcerated women in Portland. She lives in Manzanita with her British partner and Australian labradoodle, and on sunny days you'll usually find her on the beach with her camera.