Kim McLarin is an African American novelist. Kim Mclarin is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record and the Associated Press. She is writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston. Author of Taming it Down (1998) and Jump at the Sun (2006) together with Meeting of the Waters (2001) and Growing Up X (2002)- Book co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz- , Mclarin is also a frequent guest on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African American themes, shown on WGBH.