Destiny Hemphill

Destiny Hemphill is a poet and healer based in Durham, North Carolina. Her chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology was a finalist for Honeysuckle Press's inaugural chapbook prize. She has also received a 2017 Callaloo Fellowship and a 2016 Amiri Baraka Scholarship at Naropa University. Her poetry collection motherworld was published by Action Books in 2023. Hemphill's work has appeared in Narrative Northeast, The Wanderer, Winter Tangerine, Scalawag, and other venues. Her own site lists poems in outlets such as Poetry, Obsidian, Carolina Quarterly, and Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets.