Kimberly Latrice Jones

Kimberly Jones is a former bookseller, and Hosts the Atlanta Chapter of the popular Well Read Black Girl book club. She has worked in film and television with trailblazing figures such as Tyler Perry, Whitney Houston, and 8Ball & MJG. In addition to writing YA novels, she is a director of feature films and cutting-edge diverse web series. She also regularly lectures on working and succeeding in the Atlanta film market. Kim's book 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 Seventeen, Paste Magazine, Bustle, Hello Giggles, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, and was Book Brahmin in an issue of Shelf Awareness. James Patterson and the American Booksellers Association chose her as one of the inaugural winners of a holiday bonus grant for her outstanding work as an indie bookseller. She resides in Atlanta and is the proud mother of a gifted boy.