Kim L. Dulaney

“The publishing game is a difficult game to play. If I were in it for financial gain, I'd be gone. If I were in it for awards, accolades, and acknowledgment, I'd be gone. If I were in it to flex my intellectual prowess, I'd surely be gone. I write out of love for people...with hope that while entertaining, I can help someone, if only one someone, see something - feel something - come to know something... In the end, for me it's all about love...” Kim L. Dulaney

Kim L. Dulaney

Kim L. Dulaney lives in Chicago, IL with her two children. She worked in the environmental engineering field for thirteen years. Simultaneously, she worked as a Fine Arts Broker with a star-studded clientele, which includes the likes of NBA All-stars, Antione Walker, Michael Finley, Greg Buckner and Nick Anderson as well as R. Kelly (Recording Artist), Ironhead Hayward (NFL), and numerous others. She currently works as a writer and an African American Studies instructor.

Education: BA in African American Studies

MFA in Creative Writing

Ed.D. in Educational Leadership (ABD)

Her dual greatest aspirations are - to help Black folks fully realize and embrace their American citizenship, and to someday help to bring clean and safe water to poverty-stricken, forgotten folks in Africa and India.

Her body of written work includes children's books, poetry, novels and creative non-fiction. Book titles: Star Struck: An American Epidemic; children’s books, I Love Me!, I Can Fly! (The R. Kelly Story), Who Am I?, Maya's Magic, My Lost Dream, Kool...Kool...Kendel and My Best; collection of essays and poems, Woman To Woman includes the poem "I Found Me" which Ms. Dulaney recited for Oprah Winfrey; The Beautiful Ones was her first novel; Most recently released, Where I've Been: A Collection of Short Stories.

Her books have received substantial attention and praise:

Television Credits:

WGN’s Morning Show
ABC News
CBS News
WGN News
E!
Entertainment Weekly

NBC’s Common Ground
Celebrity Justice
MTV News

Print Credits include:

Newsweek Magazine
Rolling Stone Magazine

VIBE Magazine
Sister 2 Sister Magazine
Chicago Defender

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Tribune
Essence Magazine
New York Times

New York Post
USA Today
Billboard Magazine
Numerous local newspapers.

Performed on Programs with:
"Cedric the Entertainer" of The Steve Harvey Show
Sonia Sanchez, Poet/Author

Participated in Events with:

Dick Gregory, author/comedian/activist

Jessie Jackson, Sr., Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Susan Taylor, author and Former Editor of Essence Magazine
Numerous other successful authors

Various Radio Programs across the USA.

Author/Educator.