Damieka Thomas is an emerging mixed-race writer and poet from Northern California. She is a current MFA student at the University of California, Davis, working in multiple genres, including an unpublished creative nonfiction work entitled “Room for Ghosts,” which explores the intersections of grief, mixed-race identity, and Indigeneity. Her work has been published in The New Limestone Review, The Noyo Review, Glassworks Magazine, Third Iris Zine, Poetry.org, Rejected Lit Magazine, and Open Ceilings. In 2024, she was given an honorable mention in Boulevard Magazine’s Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers for her essay “Fort Bragg: A Love Letter and an Elegy.” She was the recepient of both the Diana Lynn Bogart Prize in Fiction and the Celeste Turner Wright Prize in Poetry in 2021.

She is currently working on a short story collection and novella.