Books, Honors & Publications
Books, honors, poems and short fiction
Book
A Prayer for Forgiving My Parents. Kelsay Books, 2023
Honors
Pushcart Prize Nomination for 2019— for the poem “Earworm”
Pushcart Prize Nomination for 2018 — for the poem “My Daddy Taught Me to Pack”
Origami Poems Project Kindness Contest 2017, 1st Place — for “I hear her voice calling” (poem). More than 300 poems were submitted to this international contest.
Ninth Annual Linda Flowers Literary Award (NC Humanities Council) Finalist, 2009 — for “Moon Vines” (short story).
North Carolina Writers’ Network Fiction Award — for “Wedding Photos.” 1989.
Poems
“Close Calls.” Foxglove Journal. June 2023.
https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/close-calls-daun-daemon
“Parkour.” Republished in The Magnolia Review. March 2023. https://themagnoliareview.com/2023/03/16/volume-7-issue-1-is-here/
“When all the world has gone to hell.” The Magnolia Review. March 2023. https://themagnoliareview.com/2023/03/16/volume-7-issue-1-is-here/
“Parkour.” Foxglove Journal. January 2023. Online. https://foxglovejournal.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/parkour-daun-daemon/
“Turning 60 in a Pandemic.” Adanna. Issue 12 (print). October 2022.
“Twirling.” Adanna. Issue 12 (print). October 2022.
“Home Invasion.” Adanna. Issue 12 (print). October 2022.
“Please don’t cut down the cedar tree.” Republished in the Fifth Anniversary edition of Remington Review. Fall 2022. Online. https://www.flipsnack.com/remingtonreview/remington-review-fall-2022.html
“Different Daddies.” The Poet, print anthology on Family, Volume 2. Summer 2022“By flowers.” Willawaw Jourmal. Spring 2022. Online. https://willawawjournal.com/category/journal/spring-2022-issue-14/
“After I slept in Mama and Daddy’s bed.” Black Poppy Review. March 2022. Online.
“Reiki.” Black Poppy Review. March 2022. Online
“Talking (reprint).” Black Coffee Review. Fall 2021. Online. https://www.blackcoffeereview.com/fall-2021/talking-by-daun-daemon
“Please don’t cut down the cedar tree.” Remington Review. Fall 2021. Online.
“This is why I’m telling you about the wiener dog.” Harpy Hybrid Review. July 1, 2021. Online. http://www.harpyhybridreview.org/hybrid_works/this-is-why-im-telling-you-about-the-weiner-dog/
Eat“Eat Up With It.” CP Quarterly. Online Issue 12, Spring 2021.
“All Kinds of Crazy Critters.” CP Quarterly, Online Issue 12, Spring 2021.
“Bats.” Peeking Cat Literary. Online May 22, in print October 2021. https://peekingcatliterary.co.uk/daun-daemon-bats
“The 2020 Christmas Letters.” Amsterdam Quarterly. Online March 18, 2021, and in the AQ Yearbook 2021 in print. https://www.amsterdamquarterly.org/aq_issues/aq30-pandemic/daun-daemon-the-2020-christmas-cards/
“After the pandemic, I will . . .” Into the Void. Online February 1, 2021, and in print in Issue 18. https://intothevoidmagazine.com/article/after-the-pandemic-i-will/
“Talking.” HerWords. Winter 2021. In print.
“Lost.” Trouvaille Review. Online. December 31, 2020. https://www.trouvaillereview.org/home/lost-by-daun-daemon
“Well-bred.” 45 Magazine. Online September 8, 2020. https://45magazineiwa.com/2020/09/08/well-bred/
“Kaleidoscope.” Remington Review. Online. Summer 2020.
“On Trying to Write a Prayer for Forgiving My Parents.” Deep South Magazine. April 2020 https://deepsouthmag.com/2020/04/25/two-poems-by-daun-daemon/
“That First Poem.” Deep South Magazine. April 2020 https://deepsouthmag.com/2020/04/25/two-poems-by-daun-daemon/
“Double-jointed.” Deep South Magazine. April 2020. https://deepsouthmag.com/2020/04/11/double-jointed/
“Duchess, A German Shepherd Dog.” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. August 2020. Online. https://deadmule.com/daun-daemon-two-poems-august-2020/
“Through the Mill Village, 1973.” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. August 2020. Online. https://deadmule.com/daun-daemon-two-poems-august-2020/
“Too Many Kittens.” Memoryhouse. Online. February 2020. https://chicagomemoryhouse.wordpress.com/#jp-carousel-1618
“Trying on swimsuits at 59.” Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just Me?: Women Over Forty Write on Aging. December 2019. Print. Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh, Social Justice Anthologies.
“Dead Air.” Typehouse Literary Magazine 6.3 (2019). Print.
“Pixie.” Typehouse Literary Magazine 6.3 (2019). Print.
“I called you ‘bastard’ for eight reasons.” Typehouse Literary Magazine 6.3 (2019). Print.
“To the elderly hairdresser.” Remington Review. Online. Summer 2019. https://www.flipsnack.com/remingtonreview/remington-review-summer-2019.html
“A Prayer for a Good Day in the Beauty Shop.” Remington Review. Online. Spring 2019. https://www.flipsnack.com/remingtonreview/remington-review-spring-2019.html
“When Mama Sang ‘Mockingbird Hill.'” Peeking Cat Poetry. Online. February 2019. In print, Spring 2019, Issue 28. https://peekingcatliterary.co.uk/daun-daemon
“In the Beauty Shop, 1963–2006.” Synaeresis Arts + Poetry. Online. January 2019.
“Earworm.” Synaeresis Arts + Poetry. Online. January 2019.
“The Beauty Shop Money Box.” Perspectives Magazine. Online & print. December 2018.
“Hens.” Third Wednesday. Print. Winter 2019.
“Between the Sheets.” Dime Show Review. Online. August 31, 2018. https://www.dimeshowreview.com/between-the-sheets-by-daun-daemon/
“A Haiku Cycle.” Night Garden Journal. Online. July 10, 2018.
“My Daddy Taught Me to Pack.” Typishly. Online. April 16, 2018. https://typishly.com/2018/04/16/my-daddy-taught-me-to-pack%E2%80%A8/
“I hear her voice calling.” The Best of Kindness II 2017. Print. Origami Poems Project anthology. https://www.origamipoems.com/random-acts-of-poetry/origami-contest/289-kindness-poem-2
Two untitled haiku. Haiku Journal 20 (2013). Online & print.
Two untitled haiku. Haiku Journal 19 (2013). Online & print.
Untitled haiku. Haiku Journal 18 (2013). Online & print.
Two untitled haiku. Haiku Journal 14 (2013). Online & print.
Untitled haiku. Haiku Journal 13 (2012). Online & print.
“Beatitude,” Charlotte Poetry Review 3.4 (1998). Print.
“Origami.” Charlotte Poetry Review 3.2 (1996). Print
Short Fiction
“The Green Purse.” The Dead Mule School. Online. July 2022.
“Every Last Thing She Has.” Quagmire Magazine. Online. May 2022. https://www.quagmiremagazine.com/read/short-fiction-weekly-every-last-thing-she-has-daun-daemon
“Sonatina.” Literally Stories. Online. May 28, 2020. https://literallystories2014.com/2020/05/28/sonatina-by-daun-daemon/
“Regrets.” Delmarva Review (volume 12). Print. November 2019.
“Good-bye, Ghost.” The Same. Online. September 24, 2018. https://thesame.blog/2018/09/24/issue-13-4-fiction/
“Good Customers.” The Dead Mule School. Online. August 1, 2018. https://deadmule.com/daun-daemon-good-customers-fiction/
“The Literal Gourmand — A Fable” [an updated version of a previously published story]. Literally Stories. Online. July 9, 2018. https://literallystories2014.com/2018/07/09/the-literal-gourmand-a-fable-by-daun-daemon/
“Moonflowers.” Southern Women’s Review. Online. Fall 2016/Spring 2017.
“The Shop.” Fiction Fix. Online. Issue 13. 2013. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/fiction_fix/8/
“The Interview.” The News & Observer (Sunday Reader). Nov. 26, 2006.
“Midnight.” The Dead Mule. Online. November 2002.
“The Literal Gourmand – A Fable.” Kalliope: A Journal of Women’s Literature & Arts 21.1 (1999): 75–76.
“Lightning Bugs.” Lite: Baltimore’s Literary Newspaper Oct.-Nov. 1998: 4.
“Lightning Bugs.” Windhover 1995-1996: 32.
“Wedding Photos.” Windhover 1994: 60.
“Cold-Blooded.” Sassy Apr. 1992: 68-71, 85.
“Wedding Photos.” Creative Loafing 4.6(1990): 14.