Kim Orendor is an award-winning author and journalist. Her second book, To Whom It May Concern (Idun), won the 2024 NextGen INDIE Awards gold medal for youth adult fiction. A Bigfoot Homecoming is her third book.Before writing books, Kim honed her writing craft as a sports reporter and editor at The Sacramento Bee and The Davis Enterprise. At The Enterprise, she won state and national awards during her twenty-year tenure.Kim's career path took a dramatic turn in 2006 when she began a five-year teaching stint at Sias International University in China's Henan Province. The administration took advantage of her newspaper experience, and she taught newspaper and reading classes. She also taught American Culture Through Film where she learned the universal secrets behind storytelling. This led to her first book, a memoir Unbound Feet: Finding Freedom in Communist China, also with W. Brand Publishing.Kim returned to the Sacramento area in 2018 to be a caretaker for her parents. Her dad, a Navy veteran, was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease and passed in 2022. Kim continues to live in Northern California with her mom.