DaMaris B. Hill is a poet and creative scholar.  She is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing Program, at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hill is the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, \Vi-zə-bəl\   \Teks-chərs\ (Visible Textures), and other books. Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones,” a twenty-first century poem. 

Dr. Hill will work on the book Blood Bible: An American History. Blood Bible bridges personal histories with archival materials, and wrestles with how we historically and collectively claim belonging. It also questions how we curate, create, and understand home. These ideas about home are contrasted with speculations about the limits of geography, migrations of people, and historical moments in the context of empire.