Kimberlee Auerbach is an author, teacher, private coach, speaker, storyteller and big laugher.
She teaches memoir writing for Mediabistro; creative writing and humor writing for Gotham Writers' Workshop; an online "humorous memoir" class for UCLA Extension Writers' Program; and "spiritual memoir" for The Open Center. She works privately with students on book proposals and manuscripts. And she counsels 8th grade girls for Liberty Leads at Bank Street College of Education, where she won the "Teacher of the Year" award in 2008.
Kimberlee's path to teaching sprung from her love of storytelling. She started telling stories on stage back in 2002 when she first put her name in the hat at The Moth, got picked and won. She won two more StorySLAMS after that, and has competed in three Moth GrandSLAM Storytelling Championships altogether. It was at the Moth that she honed her voice and compiled material for her one woman show, which ended up playing to sold-out houses at the New York International Fringe Festival in August '05. From there, she worked on a book proposal, sold her book, quit her job as a breaking news producer and became an author. Her memoir, The Devil, The Lovers & Me: My Life In Tarot, was published in hardcover (Dutton August '07), and then in paperback (NAL August '08), and is now available in Kindle. Telling her own stories inspired her to help others tell theirs.
She is currently working on a spec TV pilot with comedy writer and friend, Ethan T. Berlin, a screenplay with memoirist and friend, Abby Sher, and a novel.
*Portrait taken by Doron Gild