Bio

Destiny Hemphill is a chronically ill ritual worker and poet, living on the unceded territory of the Eno-Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation (Durham, NC). A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon Review's Writers Workshop, she is the co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting(North Atlantic Books, 2023) with Lisbeth White and Tamiko Beyer. She is also the author of the poetr collection motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Action Books, 2023), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Prize.