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DéLana R. A. Dameron

Biography

DéLana R. A. Dameron

DéLana R. A. Dameron is an artist whose primary medium is storytelling. She is a graduate of New York University’s MFA program in poetry and holds a BA degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her debut poetry collection, HOW GOD ENDS US, was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, and her second collection, WEARY KINGDOM, was chosen by Nikky Finney for the Palmetto Poetry Series. She also is the author of REDWOOD COURT, her debut novel. Dameron is the founder of Saloma Acres, an equestrian and cultural space in her hometown in South Carolina, where she resides.

DéLana R. A. Dameron

Books by DéLana R. A. Dameron

by DéLana R. A. Dameron - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Award-winning poet DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel is about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.