Fiction
Memphis, Tennessee
Danian Darrell Jerry, writer, teacher, and musician, holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis. He is a 2020 VONA Fellow and a Fiction Editor of Obsidian. Danian founded Neighborhood Heroes, a youth arts program that employs comic books and literary arts. Currently, he revises his first novel, Boy with the Golden Arm. His work appears or is forthcoming in Fireside Fiction, Cracking the Wire During Black Lives Matter, Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Black Panther Tales of Wakanda, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of Critical Race Theory, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Fiction. Danian resides in Memphis, Tennessee, home of the blues and American soul music.