Making Space

Nikkya Hargrove

Nikkya Hargrove is an alumna of Bard College and a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Scary Mommy, and more. Her memoir, Mama: A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in Fall 2022. When she is not writing, she is working as the vice-president of Operations and Programs for a small nonprofit based in New York called Harboring Hearts. She lives in Connecticut with her family and works as a freelance writer.