writing
Kimaya holds a degree in Creative Writing from Swarthmore College, where she studied short fiction. In 2017, she received a Callaloo Fellowship in Poetry, and headlined the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Tell It Slant Poetry Festival in 2020. In 2021, she received grants from Mass MoCa and Club Passim’s Iguana Fund to further her work.
Her work has been published by Split Lip Magazine, Malarkey Books, Meat for Tea, Abandon Journal, Wax Nine, Cavalletto, Rathalla Review, Rainy Day, FreezeRay, and more. As a writer, musician, and teaching artist, Kimaya has written soundtracks, libretti, and themes for several operas, plays, and podcasts. She has contributed writing to several collaborative projects including TV shows, short films, podcasts, and more.
Kimaya currently works as a speechwriter with West Wing Writers, and is working on a hybrid memoir at the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop.
selected published work
essays + memoir
Twin Braids (p. 4)
Rotten Fruit (p.21)
For Whenever You May Need This (p. 30)
short fiction
Snowbirds (p. 19)
flash/micro
Morning I wake up (p. 9)
poetry + experimental form
Her Body (p. 29)
Somehow the Radio Station's Copy of "Pet Sounds" Got a Scratch on It
artist bios
libretti
The Little Town in the Woods: A Children’s Opera based on Chelm Stories
corporate copywriting & content
Available upon request.