Join the NC State Literary Reading Series for a poetry reading by Destiny Hemphill.

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). Hemphill is the 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 with Lisbeth White and Tamiko Beyer and author of the poetry collection motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life. The poetry collection is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Prize. Poetry Magazine, Southern Cultures and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series have featured Hemphill's work. She served as an Inaugural Poetry Coalition fellow, a Kenan visiting writer in poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an inaugural Tin House reading fellow.