writing
Kimaya Diggs is a musician and writer based in Western Massachusetts.
She holds a degree in creative writing from Swarthmore College, where she studied short fiction. She was a 2017 Callaloo Fellow in poetry, and a 2022 Pushcart nominee. In 2020, she had the honor of co-headlining the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Tell It Slant Poetry Festival alongside Jericho Brown and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
She has received grants from Mass MoCa, Club Passim, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council in support of her work.
Kimaya’s writing has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Malarkey Books, Meat for Tea, Abandon Journal, Wax Nine, Cavalletto, Rathalla Review, Rainy Day, FreezeRay, and more.
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