Demetrice Anntia Worley

Demetrice Anntía Worley took her first photographs with a pinhole camera for a university art class.  Since that time she has taken photographs in 44 of the 50 United States and in over 14 countries abroad including Russia, Egypt, Switzerland, and Ireland.  In 2004, one of her Colorado nature photographs placed Honorable Mention in the Forest Park Nature Center’s Photography Contest, Peoria, Illinois.  In addition to being an amateur photographer, Worley is a poet who’s poetry has appeared in Permafrost, The Spoon River Poetry Review (where she was a finalist for the 2002 Editor's Prize), and Clackamas Literary Review and in anthologies such as Women. Period (Spinsters Ink, forthcoming in fall 2008), Risk, Courage, and Women (North Texas University Press, 2007) and Spirit & Flame (Syracuse University Press, 1997).  Currently, Worley is an associate professor of English at Bradley University where she teaches writing and African American literature.