Biography
Kimberly Dixon-Mays is a poet, playwright and sometimes performer. She has developed work with theaters including Goodman Theatre, Congo Square, National Black Theatre, Rivendell, Shattered Globe, Stage Left and The Gift, and in 2025 the world premiere of her play Rabbits in Their Pockets opened the 43rd season of Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre. In 2023 she received an Illinois Arts Council fellowship. As a poet, Kimberly is a Cave Canem, Callaloo and Ragdale fellow, and her poetry has been published in journals including Reverie, Anthology of Chicago, the anthology Trigger Warning, Uproot magazine, RHINO magazine and Consequence magazine.
Kimberly was a 2018-20 Russ Tutterow Fellow with Chicago Dramatists. She is currently one of CD’s Resident Playwrights, and serves as a Senior Editor for RHINO poetry magazine. She holds a B.A. from Yale, an M.A. from UCLA, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern.