Daemond Arrindell

Daemond Arrindell is a multi-genre writer, arts educator, performer, and arts & equity consultant. He is  a Jack Straw Writer and curator, a Mineral School fellow, and VONA/Voices Writer’s Workshop fellow. He has written for City Arts, Specter, Crosscut, Poetry NorthWest, Seattle Review of Books and the Pitkin Review. Daemond co-adapted the acclaimed contemporary and satirical novel “Welcome To Braggsville,” by T. Geronimo Johnson into a stage production for Book-It Repertory Theater.  Braggsville debuted in Seattle in June 2017.  In 2019, he performed his first one-man show, “Frozen Borders,” a performative exploration in imagery, poetry and emotion on the subject of the United States’ southern border. In 2022, Daemond earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.