(2nd Year Poetry) Ciara Darnise Miller was born and raised on the west side of Chicago. She is a Louder than a Bomb poetry slam champion who has been a featured performer at various high schools, colleges, and writing organizations throughout the United States including: Berkeley High, Chicago Academy of the Arts, MaryMount Manhattan College, Milliken University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and the Nuyorican Poets Café. She is the author of self-published chapbook Black Dorothy and is published in numerous Young Chicago Authors anthologies, StarWall Paper, What I Know Is Me—Black Girls Write about Their World, Dark Phrases, The SLC Review, and Saul Williams’s forthcoming MTV anthology Chorus to be released September 4th, 2012. She is a Sarah Lawrence College graduate, a Cave Canem fellow, a dual degree African American/African Diaspora MA candidate, and the current president of the Black Graduate Student Association. She approaches writing by taking influences from any speck of truth she can find.
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