About
Kimberly Warner is an award-winning author, filmmaker, essayist, and founder of Unfixed Media whose work explores the wider cosmology of uncertainty—following what becomes possible when fixed ideas of selfhood, wellness, and belonging loosen and the exiled parts of ourselves and the living world are welcomed back into relationship.
In 2019, Warner founded Unfixed Media to illuminate the lives of people living with chronic illness and disability. What began with the award-winning Unfixed Docuseries has grown into films, podcasts, memoirs, and conversations challenging conventional narratives of wellness. Her work has received national and international recognition, including the Invisible Disabilities Association’s Media Impact Award, and has reached audiences through Harvard Medical School, Global Genes, BBC Radio, and Dani Shapiro’s Family Secrets podcast.
Her debut memoir, Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home, was named a Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick and Kirkus Indie Finalist. Blending memoir, philosophy, and emotional inquiry, Unfixed explores how we continue living when the ground beneath what we know gives way. On her Substack of the same name, Warner has cultivated a devoted readership drawn to her ability to illuminate the emotional and existential realities of living without resolution or tidy narratives. Her ongoing In Defense of… essay series turns toward the qualities and experiences our culture tends to reject or malign, reclaiming them as worthy participants in a fuller understanding of what it means to be human.
A sought-after voice on living beyond resolution and the human capacity for adaptation, Warner speaks nationally on narrative medicine, embodiment, and chronic illness. She co-wrote A Course for Clinical Confidence, a certificate course for medical students, and is a visiting faculty member with Global Genes and an editorial board member of the Journal of Health Design. Across memoir, essay, and film, her work asks what becomes perceptible in the presence of unknowing, and what our hunger for certainty may have taught us to overlook.
Featured Work
Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home
A Kirkus Indie Awards Finalist ⭐️
A must-read for fans of Between Two Kingdoms, Famesick, and The Daily Stoic, Kimberly Warner's stunning debut brings us a philosophical memoir about illness, identity, and finding steadiness in an unfixed world.
“Warner’s poetic prose and intimate descriptions of her inscape while grieving... plunge readers directly into her reality.” —Publishers Weekly, Editor’s Pick
“Genre-defying... A gripping, often literary memoir that ruminates on life’s unfixable complications.” —Starred Kirkus Review
What happens when your body becomes uncertain territory?
In Unfixed, Kimberly Warner chronicles her descent into a world shaped by chronic illness, neurological instability, family secrets, and the destabilizing realization that the foundations of identity may be far less fixed than we imagine.
As Warner investigates the hidden truths surrounding her father and family history, she simultaneously confronts an elusive illness that alters not only her physical reality but her perception of the world itself. Water becomes both metaphor and lived experience: disorientation, drift, immersion, survival.
Blending memoir, philosophy, and emotional inquiry, Unfixed explores how we continue living when certainty disappears. Warner writes with extraordinary intelligence and vulnerability about illness, grief, embodiment, forgiveness, and the difficult art of building meaning inside ambiguity.
Lyrical, searching, and deeply original, Unfixed is a profound meditation on how we build meaning, identity, and resilience in a life that refuses to stay certain.
