Destiny Hemphill (Of Ritual, Tenderness, and Speculative Nonfiction)

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Read: "we ask mama-n-em, 'where is the motherworld?'" (Split This Rock)

Purchase: motherworld: a devotion for the alter-life (action books, 2023)

Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon’s Writers Workshop, she is the author of the poetry chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology (Honeysuckle Press, 2018), and her debut Motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Actionbooks, 2023).

More reading recommended from this episode:

Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing

Heartberries by Teresa Marie Mailhot