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darlene anita scott [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Richmond, VA
Virginia US
Email: 
darleneanitascott@gmail.com
Bio: 

darlene anita scott is a poet and visual artist whose work explores corporeal presentations of trauma and the violence of silence and is especially interested in these expressions in black girlhood. 

She co-edited Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge) and her collection Marrow (University Press of Kentucky) imagines Peoples Temple, a Christian congregation of Americans who immigrated to Guyana and were subsequently coerced into suicide by their spiritual leader.

Scott's art has been featured in The Journal, The West Review, and A Journal of Compressed Arts among others, and her photography appears in Barren Magazine, Persephone's Daughters, and Auburn Avenue.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
@darleneanita
Born in: 
Milford, DE
Delaware
Raised in: 
Milford, DE
Delaware
Website: 
https://www.darleneanitascott.com [2]
Prizes won: 

scott's writing has been supported by grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Tennessee Arts Commission, the Delaware Division of the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and she is a fellow of the Hurston Wright Foundation, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole and Julia and David White Artists’ Colony in Costa Rica.

Education: 
Virginia Commonwealth University
Writers Retreats: 
Vermont Studio Center
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Any
Illness/Wellness
Mental Health
Schools
Teachers
Teenagers
Women

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/darlene_anita_scott [2] https://www.darleneanitascott.com