Jameela F. Dallis

Jameela F. Dallis lives in Durham, NC. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Feminist Studies, Honey Literary, The Fight and the Fiddle, Our State, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, and elsewhere. 

She's inspired by memory and desire, the thrill of wandering new cities, and the wonder of everyday encounters. Her work explores texture, taste, sound, sensation, and the richness of visual art. She curated Material Encounters (Peel Gallery, Carrboro, March 2024), juried Scaffold (Artspace, Raleigh, April 2023), and has served on regional curatorial and fellowship committees. 

Jameela holds a Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and has taught dozens of university courses and facilitated creative workshops for more than a decade. Her first full-length poetry collection is Encounters for the Living and the Dead (River River Books, September 2025). Learn more about her work at jameeladallis.com.

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