DaMaris Hill is a doctoral candidate in English-Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. She is also affiliated with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. She has worked as an instructor and administrator in for over a decade. She is graduate of Morgan State University with a Master's in English in Creative Writing and a Bachelor's in English Literature and Language. She relocated from Baltimore, Maryland to Kansas to pursue her doctorate degree.

She has worked with local and national agencies to promote literature and the arts. Some of her professional affiliations include Goucher College, Towson University, the Bethune Council House, and Sojourner-Douglass College.

Hills short fiction story "On the Other Side of Heaven - 1957" won the 2003 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award for College Writers. She has also won the Nancy Stockwell Award in 2010 and 2011 from the University of Kansas. Her creative work has appeared in: Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Blue Island Review, Shadowbox, Tongues of the Ocean, Kweli Journal, Telling Our Stories, Sleet Magazine, Reverie, Bermuda Anthology of Poetry, Warpland, Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy, and Women in Judaism.

Hills scholarly research has always been interdisciplinary. She has published critical work on works by Lucille Clifton, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. Hill is also the mother of one son and an aunt to many.

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