Kima Jones is a 2013 PEN USA Emerging Voices fellow in poetry, a Kimbilio Fiction fellow, a Voices at VONA alum, and 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry. Jones has been published at Guernica, NPR, The Rumpus, and PANK among others. She lives in Los Angeles and is writing her first poetry collection, The Anatomy of Forgiveness.She is the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, a book publicity company.
While at MacDowell, Jones completed a first draft of her short story, The Macabre, an account of two queer black women in World War II.
Studios
Phi Beta
Kima Jones worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded
by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of
music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The
small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing
combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate
roofing.
Inside
is…
