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DaMaris B. Hill

DaMaris B. Hill is an American writer, scholar, and educator. She is the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\ , and other books. Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones”, a twenty-first-century poem. Hill is a professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.

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Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood

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

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

2019
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow

The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow

2016
\ VI-Z-BL \ \ TEKS-CHRS \ (Visible Textures)

\ VI-Z-BL \ \ TEKS-CHRS \ (Visible Textures)

2015
Walking on Water When the Ground Ain't Enuf

Walking on Water When the Ground Ain't Enuf

2010

with Stanice Anderson