Damieka Thomas is an emerging mixed-race writer and poet from Northern California. She has an MFA from the University of California, Davis. She works in multiple genres, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her work has been published in Boulevard Magazine, Siren Magazine, The New Limestone Review, The Noyo Review, Glassworks Magazine, Spirit of Place: An Anthology of Poetry by the Women of Mendocino County, Poetry.org, Rejected Lit Magazine, and Open Ceilings. In 2024, she was given an honorable mention in Boulevard Magazine’s Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers for her essay “Fort Bragg: A Love Letter and an Elegy.” She was the recipient of both the Diana Lynn Bogart Prize in Fiction and the Celeste Turner Wright Prize in Poetry in 2021.

She is currently working on revising her short story collection, “Heat Visions,” and creative nonfiction essay collection, “Room for Ghosts.” While you await these publications, you can read more of her prior publications under “Published Work,” her blog under “the truth,” or excerpts from forthcoming work under the “pieces.”