Kim R. Taylor
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Kim R. Taylor was born in Denver, Colorado. She spent most of her childhood and adult life living on California's Monterey Peninsula (with short stretches in Los Angeles, CA and Boulder, CO). She currently resides in Portland, Oregon.
She holds a bachelor's degree in Drama from University of California, Irvine, and a masters degree in Special Education, Option: Orientation and Mobility for the Blind from California State University, Los Angeles. She taught blind and visually impaired adults for seven years, and now teaches at Heald College, Portland. While in Los Angeles, she co-founded and acted in an award-winning theatre company. She facilitates workshops through PDXWriters on the Craft of Fiction.
She has recently completed a mainstream novel, THE BAY. She is the author of the YA novels CISSY FUNK and BOWERY GIRL. Cissy Funk (HarperCollins) was honored with a 2002 Willa Cather Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Bowery Girl (Viking) was listed as a Best Reads for Teens by the New York Public Library.
