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DaMaris B. Hill is an American writer, scholar, and educator. She 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\ , and other books. Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones”, a twenty-first-century poem. Hill is a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hill, Lena M. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Washington and Lee University. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Kyaw, Arrman (2020-11-23). "Washington and Lee University Appoints Dr. Lena Hill as Next Provost". Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ↑ "Lena Hill, Provost : Washington and Lee University". my.wlu.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- 1 2 3 4 Miller, Vanessa (April 10, 2018). "Another University of Iowa administrator to leave". The Gazette. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ↑ "Lena Hill Appointed Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ↑ "Lena Hill Will Be the Next Provost at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ↑ "Lena Hill Named Provost at Washington and Lee University". The Columns. 2020-11-10. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
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