Kimberly Gomes is a multi-media creative who writes about open roads, rising selves, and blooming strength. She is a poet, writer, and singer/songwriter who has crafted books, personal essays, poems, songs, and podcast content on themes related to healing trauma in the body, reclaiming the voice, and charting your own course as a thirty-something wayfinding woman.
Her debut album, First Bloom, is now available and her poetry collection, Love Notes to the Body (Dancing Girl Press, 2019) can be found here.
Kimberly received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where she wrote her first literary fiction novel, A Road of Her Own, which was named a semi-finalist for the 2022 Black Lawrence Press Book Award and is forthcoming in 2025. She was also a 2024 artist-in-residence for Arquetopia Oaxaca. She's currently working on a collection of personal essays. You can find her most recent poetry and prose on Substack, guest podcast interview on Speak for Change, as well as her podcast at Soul on the Rise.
For her day job, Kimberly is the creative director for Rocketship Public Schools. She has 12+ years of experience helping organizations bring their story to life through heart-centered creative collateral. She previously led documentary and marketing content for international NGO, Room to Read, and was a travel producer for Sunset Magazine, as well as a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle and Forbes.com.
She's particularly passionate about collaborating with women, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC entrepreneurs, activists and organizations.
