DaMaris B. Hill’s development as a writer has also been enhanced by the institutional support of The MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Watering Hole Poetry and Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University. Her books include The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the Heartland and \ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \ (Visible Textures), short collection of poems. Dr. Hill serves as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky.