Kima Jones is the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, a Los Angeles-based book publicity agency for black and brown writers, where, for five years, she worked as lead strategist on all publicity campaigns. 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. The Los Angeles Times called Kima "2018's literary breakthrough" and "an important new voice on the national stage." In 2019, Kima founded Culture, Too—a mentorship conference for black and brown cultural critics. The New York Times says, “Kima Jones is taking the publishing industry by storm.”

In the spring of 2021, Kima Jones joined Triangle House Literary as an agent. Kima is interested in representing literary fiction, essay collections, memoir, hybrid texts, commercial fiction, poetry, YA, speculative fiction, science fiction, and horror. She’s a developmental editor interested in multimodal inquiry and expansion. She brings more than a decade of marketing and publicity experience into her agenting negotiations. To query Kima at Triangle House Literary, please follow the submissions guidelines at QueryManager, which include biographical info, the query letter, and ten pages from the manuscript. She will respond if she’s interested in seeing more.

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L.A. poet who works to amplify Black voices just sold her own memoir, ‘Butch,’ to Knopf, LA Times, November 2020

Kima Jones, the Founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, Is Taking the Publishing Industry by Storm, New York Times, December 2018