Dameion Wagner

Dameion Wagner is a poet and reviewer based in Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has appeared in journals including Glass, Cider Press Review, and Bear Review, and his reviews have run in The Rumpus and The Adroit Journal. He has received the Academy of American Poets University Prize and Miami University's Jordan-Goodman Poetry Prize. His first full-length collection, Bird Wild, was published by Milk & Cake Press in 2020. The collection Bird Wild centers on a mother's long illness and decline and the strains within her family, drawing on rural Ohio roads, a nursing home, and working-class life.