GrubStreet Names Next Executive Director

GrubStreet has named Kim Dawson Ohiomoba as its next executive director. She will succeed founder and current executive director Eve Bridburg, who will step down after nearly three decades at the end of this year.

Previously, Ohiomoba has served as executive director for Actors Shakespeare Project and Young Audience of Massachusetts, chief development officer for East Boston Social Centers, and director of advancement for Zumix. Her leadership in arts access has been recognized nationally through honors from the Aspen Institute, where she was selected as an Aspen Ideas Scholar, and from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which awarded her the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.

“GrubStreet is an essential literary space alive with stories of writers finding their voice, of the literary community being shaped in real-time, and of artistic integrity evolving without compromise,” Ohiomoba said in a statement. “As someone who has devoted my career to expanding access to the arts and amplifying underrepresented voices, I’m deeply honored to lead this next chapter.”

GrubStreet, an independent creative writing center in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood, was founded by Bridburg in 1997 and has served more than 58,000 adult students and 8,000 teens, awarded more than 4,000 scholarships, and paid over $10.5 million to working writers. The center also hosts year-long novel and memoir incubators, helping writers publish their work.