DaMaris B. Hill (Writer / Dramaturg) is the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood (2022), A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (2019) -a 2020 NAACP Image Award finalist for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry , The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland (2016), \Vi-zə-bəl\   \Teks-chərs\(Visible Textures) (2015).  Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. damarishill.com