Kimberly Beatty (Anderson) currently resides in Missoula, MT.  She is the creator of Goodwill Librarian, a web site that features local authors and artists as well upcoming local events, daily trivia, contests, local bookstores, book reviews and much more. Kimberly began her writing career when she was two, by telling her mother stories. Her mother wrote them down and collected them through out the years. She was first published at the age of fourteen, when she entered a poetry contest and was nominated as a Famous Poet for 1995 where she received a Diamond Homer Trophy Award. Her poem, Secret Misery was published in an anthology titled The Isle of View. Her first complete book, In the Eyes of the Beholder was published in 1998, and her second book, The Presence of Life was completed in 2001.

Diamond Homer Trophy Award 1995