About

Kimberly Latrice Jones is an American author and filmmaker, known for the New York Times

bestselling young adult novel, I'm Not Dying With You Tonight. The book was nominated for

Outstanding Literary Work Youth/Teen at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards. She has appeared as

a guest on dozens of shows and podcasts including The Breakfast Club, CBS Mornings, The

Daily Show, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Steve On Watch, BBC News and TMZ. She also serves on the

voting committee for The Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, located in Atlanta,

Georgia, which started in January 2021 to honor African Americans with a monument for their

achievements in entertainment.

Kim's film passion began in Highschool where she studied theater at Chicago Academy for the

Arts, then went on to study Film with a concentration in producing at Columbia College

Chicago. A reality television pioneer, Kim worked in development on the groundbreaking series

“Being Bobby Brown” starring Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston. She then went on to serve

under the guidance of the legendary Tyler Perry on the films “Madea’s Family Reunion” and “I

Can Do Bad All By Myself”. She has also produced a multitude of independent films that can be

seen across streaming platforms such as Amazon, Tubi, IMDB TV, Apple TV, and several other

streamers. She is currently in development on her passion project, “Coming Out Hard” the 8 Ball

and MJG biopic. More book titles by her include The Sydney Taylor honoree “Why We Fly”,

critically acclaimed “How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's

Rigged”, and a short story in the Laura Silverman anthology “Game On: 15 Stories of Wins,

Losses, and Everything in Between”. She has written op-eds for Time, Marie Claire UK,

Essence, Pop Sugar, and i-D Magazine.

Kim's literary roots run deep. She served on the Selection Committee for Library of Congress' 2016-2017 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, the 2015 Children’s Choice Illustrator Committee for The Children's Book Council, and the advisory board that created the Creative and Innovative Education Master’s Degree program at Georgia State University. She has been featured in Ms. Magazine, Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, Paste Magazine, Bustle, Hello Giggles, Book List, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, and was Book Brahmin in an issue of Shelf Awareness. She received one of the inaugural James Patterson Holiday Bookseller Bonus grants while working at the famous children’s bookstore, Little Shop of Stories. 

Kimberly racked up several honors including GQ Germany “Men of the Year”-Award 2020 |

"Voice of the Year", 2020 Black Women in Media Honoree, 2020 The Root 100 Most Influential

African Americans, 2021 SEGL Golden Mug Award, 2021 Books All Young Georgians Should

Read for I’m Not Dying With You Tonight and again in 2022 for Why We Fly. Also a

community advocate, Kim believes that art is a portal into difficult conversations and is the DNA

of a society.