About

After growing up in Walla Walla, Washington, Kari Rimbey married and moved with her husband to Anchorage Alaska. Eventually settling in the Palouse region of eastern Washington, she spent the majority of her time raising three girls, serving in teen ministry, and facilitating an adults apologetic’s class.  She is currently the story lady for a weekly children’s ministry, where she attempts to mesmerize up to forty K-2nd graders, and volunteers as a creative writing instructor.

In 2017, Six years after remodeling a 100-year- old commercial building and opening a coffee shop, Kari received a Writer’s Digest award for a short story. Several months before the marriage of her youngest daughter, Kari published her first novel. Now a grandmother, she is out of the coffee business and pursuing a career as a fiction writer.

Favorite Quotes

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”         –   Charles Dickens

“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”                             –    Beverly Cleary