DaMaris B. Hill

DaMaris B. Hill is a creative scholar and the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, deemed “urgent” and “luminous” in a starred Publisher’s Weekly review. Her first book, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in African American Poetry and a Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the season. Hill’s other books include The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\ (Visible Textures). Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones”, a twenty-first century poem that uses remix/pastiche/intertextuality to honor a specific cultural past, while working to construct visions of a better future. Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. She is a 2024-2025 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Hill is a Professor at the University of Kentucky.

Event: Form in Life-Writing: Personal and National Narratives in Life-Writing - April 2, 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM