darlene anita scott

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Richmond, VA 23223

Email:

darleneanitascott@gmail.com

Phone:

(804) 304-3732

Bio:

darlene anita scott is a poet and visual artist whose work explores corporeal performances 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 is forthcoming (University Press of Kentucky 2021). The collection imagines The 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. Her photography has appeared in Barren Magazine, Persephone's Daughters, and Auburn Avenue.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Twitter:

@darleneanita

Born in:

Milford, DE

Delaware

Raised in:

Milford, DE

Delaware

Website:

http://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:

Furious Flower Collegiate Summit: Poetry Without Boundaries

Renaissance House Residency Program

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