Daemond Arrindell (he/him) is a Pushcart Prize nominated, multi-genre writer, film maker, educator, and performer. His work explores visual poetics, persona, and the meanings of Blackness and legacy. His writing has appeared in City Arts, Specter, Crosscut, Poetry NorthWest, Seattle Review of Books, The Pitkin Review, and Arcana Poetry Press. In 2019, he performed his one-man show, “Frozen Borders,” an exploration in imagery, poetry, and emotion on the subject of the United States’ southern border. Daemond graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Currently, he lives in NYC, teaches for Uptown Stories in the Heights, DreamYard, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and lectures at Rutgers University.