Jameela F. Dallis

Jameela F. Dallis is a poet, curator, and scholar based in Durham, North Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and has taught university courses and led creative workshops for over a decade. Her first full-length poetry collection, Encounters for the Living and the Dead, was published by River River Books in 2025. Her work explores texture, taste, sound, and visual art, and has appeared in Feminist Studies, Honey Literary, and Our State. She curated Material Encounters at Peel Gallery in Carrboro (2024) and juried Scaffold at Artspace in Raleigh (2023).