Who Am I?
DaMaris B. Hill, PhD is a poet and creative scholar. She is a descendant of Somerset Place in Creswell, NC. She is the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland , The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\ (Visible Textures) and other works.
Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones”, a twenty-first century poem. Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill is a Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky.
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