I write for the very reason I breathe!
100-word Bio
delmetria millener is a Louisiana-bred, Texas-fed storyteller and international English teacher. She is the founder and Executive Director of #TeenWritersProject, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, and the Executive Director of The Writer’s Block, Inc., a nonprofit writing organization for adults. delmetria is also the publisher of The #TWP Quarterly Lit Zine and the author of three workbooks and a journal for teen writers. She is currently finishing her memoir about the life-changing impact of writing. When she’s not writing, delmetria works as a sommelier, blending and curating teas and tisanes for The Tea Vault Co., her specialty tea business.
200-word Bio
delmetria millener is a Louisiana-bred, Texas-fed storyteller and English teacher who recently moved back to the U.S. from 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, be published, and get paid. She leads its Lit Zine publication, The #TWP Quarterly Lit Zine. Through this organization, delmetria helps teens advocate for creative and cultural agency in education and economic, racial, and social equity in publishing. With partnerships with schools, libraries, bookstores, educators, corporations, and other organizations that service youth, we will improve the reading, writing, social, cultural and creative literacy in high school-age teens.
For the past year, delmetria has led The Writer's Block, Inc., as their Executive Director. Her goal is to lead and support writers of color of all genres to help give consciousness to their writing dreams as well as my own.
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 exploring 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 an idea for a work of creative nonfiction writing.
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, be published, and get paid. She leads its Lit Zine publication, The #TWP Quarterly Lit Zine. Through this organization, delmetria helps teens advocate for creative and cultural agency in education and economic, racial, and social equity in publishing. With partnerships with schools, libraries, bookstores, educators, corporations, and other organizations that service youth, we will improve the reading, writing, social, cultural and creative literacy in high school-age teens.
For the past year, delmetria has led The Writer's Block, Inc., as their Executive Director. Her goal is to lead and support writers of color of all genres to help give consciousness to their writing dreams as well as my own.
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 exploring 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 an idea for a work of creative nonfiction writing.
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. She recently became the leader of The Writer's Block, Inc., a writing organization for adult writers of color.
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. She recently became the leader of The Writer's Block, Inc., a writing organization for adult writers of color.
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.