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Adriena Dame was born in Arkansas, and raised on the coattails of her father's Army dress blues and BDUs; her mother's canvases, paints, and macramé; and countless airways, highways, and new ways of experiencing the world. She is the author of The MOO: Stories and a Novella, and has works appearing in The Written Word, Women. Period.,Tae Kwon Do Times, Bleach, Calypso, and other publications. She publishes a literary journal titled 94 Creations, contributes to the editorial process of Tidal Basin Review, has worked as the assistant managing editor for The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press, and is a graduate of Spalding University's brief-residency MFA in Writing Program.
Her passion for social change is marked by her role as a board member for Kentucky Foundation for Woman, as the writing coach for Generation iSpeak, and as a teaching artist for The Experience School of Creativity. She is also a mixed-media jewelry artist (Damejoyas), box maker, and collagist. In the earlier, exploratory chapters of her career, she has worked as a payroll specialist, mini-mart cashier, gas station attendant, runway model, beauty consultant, fine jewelry salesperson, loss prevention officer, ghost writer, eavesdropper, staff writer, meat slicer, bartender, preschool teacher, middle school teacher, and high school teacher. She loves God, her family, teaching college writing courses, conducting creative writing workshops, participating in the Mixed Nuts Writers Group, learning Spanish, playing Scrabble, handling blow torches, and reading books.
Her passion for social change is marked by her role as a board member for Kentucky Foundation for Woman, as the writing coach for Generation iSpeak, and as a teaching artist for The Experience School of Creativity. She is also a mixed-media jewelry artist (Damejoyas), box maker, and collagist. In the earlier, exploratory chapters of her career, she has worked as a payroll specialist, mini-mart cashier, gas station attendant, runway model, beauty consultant, fine jewelry salesperson, loss prevention officer, ghost writer, eavesdropper, staff writer, meat slicer, bartender, preschool teacher, middle school teacher, and high school teacher. She loves God, her family, teaching college writing courses, conducting creative writing workshops, participating in the Mixed Nuts Writers Group, learning Spanish, playing Scrabble, handling blow torches, and reading books.