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DéLana R. A. Dameron

Biography

DéLana R. A. Dameron

DéLana R. A. Dameron is an artist whose primary medium is storytelling. She is a graduate of New York University’s MFA program in poetry and holds a BA degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her debut poetry collection, HOW GOD ENDS US, was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, and her second collection, WEARY KINGDOM, was chosen by Nikky Finney for the Palmetto Poetry Series. She also is the author of REDWOOD COURT, her debut novel. Dameron is the founder of Saloma Acres, an equestrian and cultural space in her hometown in South Carolina, where she resides.

DéLana R. A. Dameron

Books by DéLana R. A. Dameron

Redwood Court
by DéLana R. A. Dameron - Fiction, Women's Fiction

On Redwood Court, the cul-de-sac in the all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, where her grandparents live, Mika Tabor learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her exhausted parents, who work long hours at multiple jobs while still making sure their kids experience the adventure of family vacations; her older sister, who in a house filled with Motown would rather listen to Alanis Morrisette; her retired grandparents, children of Jim Crow, who realized their own vision of success when they bought their house on the Court in the 1960s, imagining it filled with future generations; and the many neighbors who hold tight to the community they’ve built, committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.