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ABOUT

Kim Cooper Findling is an award-winning author, essayist, journalist and editor based in beautiful Bend, Oregon. She is a fifth-generation Oregonian who spent her childhood on the Oregon coast and has been writing about her amazing home state for going-on 20 years.

BOOKS

WRITING

Kim Cooper Findling: Baking Cupcakes For The Dead

“Skate Mom” published in Horizon Air Magazine

“The Friday’s Trilogy” published in Oregon Quarterly Magazine

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BOOK RELEASE: Day Trips to the Oregon Coast: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By Kim Cooper Findling April 1, 2020

Friends and Fellow Oregon Lovers, The timing couldn’t be worse, and yet here it is—the publication date for my book,…

What I Learned About Survival When My Baby Died

By Kim Cooper Findling March 23, 2020

What I Learned About Survival When My Baby Died How an experience 17 years ago prepped me for the pandemic…

Pit Bosses By the Bay in Northwest Travel & Life

By Kim Cooper Findling February 25, 2020

Last Memorial Day weekend, I underwent intense study to become a certified BBQ judge, and subsequently chewed my way through…

Day Trips to the Oregon Coast Launch

Events, Links to Stories, Events, News and Shameless Self-Promotion

Keep an eye out for rescheduled book release events! — April 9, 2020, 7 p.m. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, Portland, Oregon CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS. STAY TUNED FOR RESCHEDULE. — April 11, 2020,…

Sisters Festival of Books

Events, Links to Stories, Events, News and Shameless Self-Promotion

Join Dancing Moon Press and The Sixth Storm author girls at the inaugural Sisters Festival of Books. To be held in Sisters, Oregon at Paulina Springs Books and Sisters High School this October…