MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING

THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

Presents

Chai and Chat

Reading Series

MFA Director Michelle Valladares

in conversation with KIMA JONES

Author, Professor, and Literary Agent

Wednesday, November 6th

6:30PM-7:30PM

Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316

Join us as we discuss the stages of literary publishing and book advocacy from sending out the query letter to evaluating contracts. Please come with your most eager questions about what it means to work with an agent and publish a book!

Kima Jones is a poet, and the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, a Los Angeles-based book publicity agency for black and brown writers. In 2017, Kima founded the Jack Jones Literary Arts retreat—a two-week respite and book incubator for black and brown nonbinary and women writers.

Kima joined Triangle House Literary as an agent in 2021. Her clients include David Haynes and Rochelle Spencer. She’s a developmental editor who brings more than a decade of marketing and publicity experience into her agenting negotiations. Kima is at work on her first book, Butch, a memoir, forthcoming from Knopf.

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by The Rifkind Center For the Humanities and Arts and The David Dortort Fund for Creative Writing