DéLana Dameron

DéLana Dameron is the author of two books of poetry, How God Ends Us (University of South Carolina Press, 2009), selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, and Weary Kingdom (University of South Carolina Press, 2017), chose by Nikky Finney for the Palmetto Poetry Prize., and a novel, Redwood Court (2024). She was a history department graduate of the University of North Carolina and the New York University MFA program in poetry, as well as an active participant in the Carolina African American Writers Collection, Cave Canem, and the Watering Hole. Dameron died at the age of forty on November 29, 2025.