Kimolee Eryn is a Jamaica-born, Connecticut-raised, multi-dimensional artist with a knack for wandering beyond borders to redefine “what is.” Her mission to live as fully as life will allow has led to an exploration of existence that converges intricately at the borders of heritage, experience, and faith. Kimolee is a spoken-word poet, visual artist, and media producer who serves as a creative writing teaching artist and youth arts administrator for elementary through high school students. She has previously worked with creative youth organizations such as GoLive Girl, mentoring middle school girls in Waterbury; The Word New Haven, serving as a poetry coach and chaperone for the Connecticut Youth Slam Team’s Brave New Voices competition in San Francisco (2023); and as Program Coordinator for the national Poetry Out Loud program through the Connecticut Office of the Arts for Connecticut high schools.

Among her creative pursuits, she is a theatre critic with the Connecticut Critics Circle and sits on the board of Permission to Write, a writing group based in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Her interests include reading, horseback riding, tennis, traveling, film, and producing creative multimedia projects. Kimolee recently founded a media production company with the mission of elevating human-centered stories with an undertone of hope while simultaneously creating opportunities for youth with artistic interests and creative promise to receive mentorship. Her latest project, What If You Fly?, partners with Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to highlight young Black artists in their creative brilliance.

Kimolee is a 2024 CT Office of the Arts Artist Respond grantee and a 2024 (and 2021) Free Center Independent Artist Fund grantee. She’s been awarded the 2023 Mahaffey fellowship and was a 2023 Artist of Color Accelerate fellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe center artist in residence. She was the 2022 Jamilah T. Muhammad awardee, a 2021 100 Women of Color honoree and a speaker at the 2024 100 Women of Color gala.