Chip Dameron

Chip Dameron is the author of nine collections of poetry and a travel book. His poems and essays on contemporary writers have appeared in the Mississippi Review, Southwestern American Literature, San Pedro River Review, Puerto del Sol, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Borderlands Poetry Review, and many other journals and anthologies, as well as publications in Canada, Ireland, Nigeria, India, China, Thailand, and New Zealand.

Dameron has co-edited one literary magazine, Thicket, and served on the editorial board of five others. He is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize in poetry, member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and Dobie-Paisano Fellow. A Professor Emeritus of English at UT Rio Grande Valley, he lives and writes in Brownsville, Texas.