CV | Resume
KIMBERLY WARNER
Author | Filmmaker | Essayist | Founder, Unfixed Media
Oregon, USA
unfixedmedia.com | unfixed.substack.com | youtube.com/@UnfixedCommunity | kimberlywarnerauthor.com
LITERARY PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS
Supernovanilla: Essays on the Unfixed Life — Completed manuscript, 2026. A collection of thirty interconnected literary essays exploring overlooked and undervalued aspects of human experience through memoir, ecological inquiry, philosophy, and lyrical nonfiction.
Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home — Empress Editions, October 2025. Debut memoir; Kirkus Indie Award finalist and BookLife Editor’s Pick.
Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship — ELJ Editions, 2026. Contributing author.
In Defense Of… — Ongoing literary essay series published on Substack, with more than 4,000 subscribers. Subscription-based essays exploring the generative possibilities within experiences contemporary culture often seeks to avoid, overcome, or optimize away.
Liberation of Being — Memoir by Dylan Shanahan. Book Producer & Project Director; raised $25,000 to fund the project and oversaw editorial development, audiobook production, project management, and promotional efforts from inception through publication.
FILM & MEDIA PRODUCTIONS
Unfixed Media | Founder, Producer & Director | 2019–present
Independent storytelling platform dedicated to illuminating the experiences of people living with chronic illness and disability through documentary film, literary nonfiction, podcasts, and educational media.
Short Films
Unbound (2026) — Short dance film; co-director and producer.
Unsung (2025) — Short documentary film; Our Pride Shorts Fest Innovative Storytelling Winner; co-director and producer.
I Was, I Am (2021) — Documentary short; Mountain View Film Festival Honorable Mention; director, producer.
9 (2014) — Narrative short; writer and director; Best Oregon Short Film
CPR (2012) — Narrative short; writer, director
Documentary & Limited Series
Unfixed Mind (2023)— Documentary series exploring mental health; co-director and producer.
Long Haul Voices (2022) — Documentary series exploring Long COVID and ME/CFS; director and producer.
Life Rebalanced Chronicles (2021) — Award-winning series for the Vestibular Disorders Association; director and editor.
Unfixed Docuseries (2020–2021) — 23-episode documentary series; director and producer.
The Patient Chronicles — Feature-length documentary exploring the lived experiences of cancer patients; directed by Jon Garcia, distributed by Dark Star Pictures; editor
Music Changes Everything (2014–2015) — Documentary series for BRAVO Youth Orchestra; director, videographer, and editor.
Podcasts & Additional Productions
Unfixed Podcast (2020 - present) — producer, host (seasons 2 & 3)
ICU Podcast (2023 - present) — producer, co-host
MS Confidential (2021-2024) — Roundtable webcast; producer, host
Why We Matter (2022) — Short-form vignette series; director, producer, editor
SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS & GRANTS
Kirkus Indie Award Finalist — Unfixed (2025)
BookLife Editor's Pick — Unfixed (2025)
Innovative Storytelling Award — Our Pride Shorts Fest (2025)
Best International Contribution — Life on the Level (2022)
Media Impact Award — Invisible Disabilities Association (2021)
Honorable Mention — Mountain View Film Festival, I Was, I Am (2021)
Artistic Focus Project Grant — Regional Arts & Culture Council (2020)
Audience Choice Award — Portland International Film Festival, 9 (2014)
Audience Choice Award — Women's Independent Film Festival, CPR (2013)
SELECTED SPEAKING & LITERARY ENGAGEMENTS
Narrative Mindworks NW / Oregon Health & Science University — The Dizzy & Unfixed Path: Narrative, Meaning, and Living Beyond the Cure Story, seminar co-facilitator (September 2026).
University of Colorado Boulder — Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium, panelist (September 2026).
Open Secrets Magazine — Live literary panel, New York City (May 2026).
Health Story Collaborative — Healing Story Session presenter (August 2025).
Global Genes Summit — RAREly Told Stories on-site workshop presenter (2022).
New York Public Library — BizAbility Series, Featured Speaker (2022).
Selected Author Readings & Literary Events — Powell’s Books (Portland, OR); Boulder Bookstore (Boulder, CO); Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA); Writer’s Haven (Chicago, IL); Hoffman Center for the Arts (Manzanita, OR), Bay Books | Old Art Building (Leelanau, MI).
SELECTED MEDIA & PRESS
BBC Radio
Family Secrets with Dani Shapiro
Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews
KATU-TV, AM Northwest
KOIN Conversations
Oregon ArtsWatch
Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal
PROFESSIONAL & EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Writing the Unfixed Life | Creator & Instructor | February 2026
Developed and taught a four-week creative writing seminar exploring memoir through embodied memory, liminal spaces, ecological imagination, and nonlinear narrative.
Unfixed Media | Founder, Producer & Director | 2019–present
Founded an independent media platform bringing together filmmakers, writers, patients, clinicians, and advocates to expand cultural understanding of chronic illness, disability, and the human experience.
Vestibular Disorders Association | Ambassador & Podcast host | 2021-present
Patient advocacy and public education.
A Course in Clinical Confidence | Co-Creator | 2021
Co-created medical curriculum exploring the art of doctoring through patient experience, narrative, and clinical communication.
The Dougy Center | Group Facilitator & Bereavement Theater Co-Director | 2003-2010, 2016-2018
Facilitated grief support and co-directed a bereavement theater troupe.
EDUCATION
Colorado College | 1993–1997
Bachelor of Arts, Biology / Pre-Med
National College of Naturopathic Medicine | 2004–2006
Studies in Naturopathic Medicine, Acupuncture, and Chinese Medicine
CREATIVE & INTELLECTUAL FOCUS
Literary nonfiction, memoir, ecological selfhood, embodied knowledge, narrative medicine, disability studies, grief and mortality, identity and kinship, and the intersections of ecology, philosophy, and the human experience.