DaMaris B. Hill is the author of The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, \ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \(Visible Textures), and A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing (Bloomsbury, Jan 2019). She has a keen interest in the work of Toni Morrison and theories regarding ‘rememory’ as a philosophy and aesthetic practice. Hill has studied with writers such as Lucille Clifton, Monifa Love-Asante, Natasha Trethewey, Nikky Finney, Marita Golden, Deborah Willis and others. Her development as a writer has also been enhanced by the institutional support of the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Key West Literary Seminar/Writers Workshops, Callaloo Literary Writers Workshop, The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, The Project on the History of Black Writing, The Watering Hole Poetry, The Furious Flower Poetry Center and others. Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.