NIKKYA HARGROVE
I am an ‘05 alum of Bard College and currently serve as a member of the Board of Governors and currently serves as a member of the school's Board of Governors and chair of the alumni/ae Diversity Committee.
I am a 2012 Lambda Literary Non-Fiction Fellow. I have written about my same-sex multi-ethnic marriage, becoming a mom as a gay woman, motherhood, the prison system, and having a special needs child. In 2018, I appeared on a CBC podcast called Out in the Open. I have written about adoption, marriage, LGBTQIA+ issues, motherhood, and the prison system.
I’m the author of the forthcoming memoir, Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found, set for October 15, 2024 publication. I have also contributed to Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, a collection of essays that explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. I’m a contributing writer to Confident Parents, Confident Kids. I have written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Shondaland, Elle, Parents, and others.
I live in New England with my Sri Lankan-American wife, our three children, and our two puppies, Evelyn and Oliver. Lucky, pictured here, our Australian Terrier, passed away in 2020. I work full-time as the Vice President of Operations and Programs at a New York City based heart health nonprofit.