I write for the very reason I breathe!
200-word Bio
delmetria millener is a Louisiana-bred, Texas-fed storyteller and teacher living in Asia. Before becoming a teacher, she worked as a nationally published freelance journalist and showed her literary finesse as a content writer, copywriter and editor. Her work covered a range of topics from the arts, culture, literature, history and education to natural wellness, entrepreneurship and green living.
delmetria is also a certified tea specialist and the founding director of #TeenWritersProject, a nonprofit writing organization that provides a collaborative and engaging space for teens to write and be published. She leads its Lit Zine publication as Editor-in-Chief. Through this organization, delmetria intends to improve the reading, writing, social, cultural and creative literacy in high school-age teens.
As a teacher, delmetria teaches or has taught American Literature, British Literature, AP English Literature, AP English Language, AP Research, IB English Literature, IB Extended Essay, IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK), and Creative Writing, and she has also served as an IB Program Coordinator.
delmetria is currently completing a creative nonfiction thesis which explores the importance of how intentionally teaching Black literature in secondary and post-secondary classrooms can shape, or reshape, ideas of diversity, equity and inclusion beyond the classroom.
delmetria is also a certified tea specialist and the founding director of #TeenWritersProject, a nonprofit writing organization that provides a collaborative and engaging space for teens to write and be published. She leads its Lit Zine publication as Editor-in-Chief. Through this organization, delmetria intends to improve the reading, writing, social, cultural and creative literacy in high school-age teens.
As a teacher, delmetria teaches or has taught American Literature, British Literature, AP English Literature, AP English Language, AP Research, IB English Literature, IB Extended Essay, IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK), and Creative Writing, and she has also served as an IB Program Coordinator.
delmetria is currently completing a creative nonfiction thesis which explores the importance of how intentionally teaching Black literature in secondary and post-secondary classrooms can shape, or reshape, ideas of diversity, equity and inclusion beyond the classroom.
Way More Than 200-words Bio
delmetria millener has been a professional writer for more than 33 years. As a journalist, she has bylines with publications such as ABC News, Dallas Morning News, Black Enterprises, rolling out, and many others.
As a copywriter and copy editor, delmetria has credits with companies like Eli Lilly, Proctor & Gamble, Texas Instruments, DART and many others.
delmetria is also an artist who danced professionally as a ballet and modern dancer for more than 35 years, then became the creator and founder of words of wisdom writers society (wowws), a discussion and critique group for adult writers that lasted 15 years, and the creator and host of a spoken word event called, "Poetry Gumbo" that lasted more than five years as an extension of wowws.
For more than nine years, delmetria has worked as an international, high school English Language and Literature teacher who has spent seven of those nine years in Advanced Academics, teaching AP Language, AP Literature, AP Research, IB Literature, IB TOK and IB Extended Essay courses, in Asia and America. She implements pedagogy and a creative curriculum that allows her to push teen students’ reading, writing, analysis, critical thinking and creative skills to their limits.
Her work as a teacher led delmetria back into entrepreneurship where she became the founding director and editor-in-chief of the Dallas-based, #TeenWritersProject, a writing organization for teens that hosts writing intensives and publishes a Literary eZine four times a year.
Finally, delmetria is a certified tea master and lives in Bangkok, Thailand, with her husband, artist and stylist, B. Adams. There, she is working on the completion of her literary nonfiction manuscript which explores the importance of how intentionally teaching Black literature in secondary and post-secondary classrooms can shape, or reshape, ideas of diversity, equity and inclusion beyond the classroom.
As a copywriter and copy editor, delmetria has credits with companies like Eli Lilly, Proctor & Gamble, Texas Instruments, DART and many others.
delmetria is also an artist who danced professionally as a ballet and modern dancer for more than 35 years, then became the creator and founder of words of wisdom writers society (wowws), a discussion and critique group for adult writers that lasted 15 years, and the creator and host of a spoken word event called, "Poetry Gumbo" that lasted more than five years as an extension of wowws.
For more than nine years, delmetria has worked as an international, high school English Language and Literature teacher who has spent seven of those nine years in Advanced Academics, teaching AP Language, AP Literature, AP Research, IB Literature, IB TOK and IB Extended Essay courses, in Asia and America. She implements pedagogy and a creative curriculum that allows her to push teen students’ reading, writing, analysis, critical thinking and creative skills to their limits.
Her work as a teacher led delmetria back into entrepreneurship where she became the founding director and editor-in-chief of the Dallas-based, #TeenWritersProject, a writing organization for teens that hosts writing intensives and publishes a Literary eZine four times a year.
Finally, delmetria is a certified tea master and lives in Bangkok, Thailand, with her husband, artist and stylist, B. Adams. There, she is working on the completion of her literary nonfiction manuscript which explores the importance of how intentionally teaching Black literature in secondary and post-secondary classrooms can shape, or reshape, ideas of diversity, equity and inclusion beyond the classroom.