Kim Fowler loves beauty in words, art, people and in the changing of seasons. As a leadership coach, she listens for her clients' dissonance and helps them tune into the harmonies of their individual brilliance and rhythms. While working for the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University, Kim co-authored Dreams of a City: The East Palo Alto Project with Prof. Harry J. Elam, Jr. for the book Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2001). Kim's writing was first recognized by her 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Haynes, who featured several of her pieces as part of a class project. In the 1970s, while living in Santa Fe, she wrote and acted in monologues for The Women's Performance Piece, which was invited to New York by Lewis Allen, a producer of Annie. That fell through and Kim left town but continued writing poetry and prose. She found strong inspiration and meaning in the varied natural worlds she experienced, especially in the Southwest which she continued to visit annually, enjoying time alone in the Pecos Wilderness and outside of Moab, UT. After her mother's stroke, writing this book became a tool for healing and grappling with the continual changes caused by her mom's dementia. Her poem Emergence in Four Parts was published in the online magazine Reinventing Home in December 2020.Kim has written and performed theatre pieces in the West and Midwest. She sang for fifteen years with Threshold Singers of the East Bay, singing to people in the last stage of their lives. She loves how travel cracks her open and how spending time alone in high places puts her back together again. She loves throwing parties where people tell her, You have the most interesting friends. She hopes to maybe one day slow down enough to have a dog own her. For more information, please