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.