Mimi Tempestt mimi tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a M.A. in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical Ph.D. in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her new book is the delicacy of embracing spirals, published by City Lights in October 2023. mimi's first book, the monumental misrememberings, was published with Co-Conspirator Press//The Feminist Center for Creative Work in 2020. In 2021, she was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & Writers, and was a Creative Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. Her works can be found in Foglifter, Interim Poetics, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. A native of Los Angeles, she currently resides in Berkeley, CA.
Publications
untitled #3, exhaustion is the metaphor (Apogee Journal)
On Kara Walker's Fons Americanus, part one (Honey Literary)
The Unreliable Narrator (Interim Poetics)
Sustainability as survival: Queer nightlife in the time of Covid-19, Part Three
Moving with resilience: Queer nightlife in the time of Covid-19, Part Two
Preserving our unity: Queer nightlife in the time of Covid-19, Part One
Black.Queer.Alive. (An Interview Series)
"mis tias" published by Chaparral Press
"reparations" published by Changing Womxn Collective
Sonalee Rashatwar: The Fat Sex Therapist (Interview with Mimi Tempestt)
"The Birth of Evalina Lonestar" published by Inqluded (Issue Four: Love Lives Here)
Music Videos
Rough Diamond/The Mondrian. Hangry. A Plastic Kinda Love. Back To The Future. A New Day. Homecoming Queen. Sandra Was A Friend of Mine.
Exhibitions
The Black Woman is GOD (2020) Diasporic Futurism (2020 -21)
Acting//Poetry Performances//Public Speaking
Comb Your Hair (or You'll Look Like a Slave) - A Play Written by Leelee Jackson
We Are the Voices presents Patricia Smith (introduction by Mimi Tempestt)