Kim Cook

Kim Cook builds experiences, shapes space, and creates impact. Known for translating big ideas into powerful results, Kim is a trusted collaborator to artists and organizations worldwide. With roots in participatory activism and cultural community work, her multi-disciplinary career spans theater, circus, festivals, visual art, digital media, and writing — all shaped by a commitment to collaboration, embodied experience, and curiosity.

Her book, What Remains is Love: 55 Letters to My Mother explores themes related to healing and reconciliation through a candid lens. Kim severed ties with her mother in order to find her own healing path. The choice to go no contact is not a choice about love or no love—it is about discovering independent identity, recovering from wounds and establishing personal mental health. However, when her mother was ill and heading towards death, she refused to see Kim. How Kim navigates a reconciliation after death, finds her truth through compassion, and ultimately understands both the tragedy and the poetry of her relationship with her mother unfolds in this series of letters. This book is a journey through time, humor, trauma with an eventual arrival at the awareness that what remains is love. A brilliant book for mothers, daughters, families who have found themselves estranged or at a loss for words when the damage is too much—the work speaks to the multiple ways of moving forward through loss.