The south carolina native was a builder of community, a defender of wild and rural spaces and an emerging. Dameron is a black southern writer and the author of weary kingdom (2017), a palmetto poetry series book edited by nikky finney, and how god ends us (2009), both from the university of south carolina press. Dameron is an artist who believes in the power of storytelling to move people and resources to cultural missions As a writer, délana’s second collection of poems weary kingdom (2017) is part of the university of south carolina palmetto poetry series, edited by nikky finney. Later, blackboard was a finalist in 2019 and received a grant from the black art futures fund in 2020 Dameron, redwood court, 2024, dial press
When i met délana r.a Dameron, almost fourteen years ago, i had just graduated college We were two black women from the south, studying at the same institution Délana was finishing her mfa while i could barely contemplate the idea of graduate school, let alone graduate school for writing.
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