ACTIVIST/EDUCATOR/WRITER
Dominque Demetrea Conway is a first year Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas seeking a doctorate degree in Creative Nonfiction. She received her MFA degree from Goucher College in 2019., and in 2022 Dominque was chosen for the Mountain Words Writer-in-Residency fellowship. She is currently working on a memoir, titled Far From the Tree, Tree. It is a genealogical memoir telling Dominque Conway’s story of family and belonging, excavating her personal and political history to investigate the impact of racism and trauma on consecutive generations spanning 300+ years in America. Dominque is the co-author of the book, Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, the memoir of Marshall "Eddie" Conway, aa former Black Panther political prisoner.
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Dominque is best known as aa Baltimore based activist who founded the community organization Tubman House in 2016, and whose work on issues of mass incarceration and prison issues led to the founding of Friend of a Friend, a prison-based program that provided mentoring, and political education for prisoners in Maryland and United States federal prisons.
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EDUCATION
M.F.A., Nonfiction, Goucher College, 2021
Concentrations: Memoir, African American Studies
Thesis: Far From the Tree
B.A, Independent Study, Goddard College, 2019
Concentration: African American Studies/Creative Writing
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Director, Friend of a Friend, 2006-2020
Courses: Critical Thinking, Creative Writing/Theater, Train the Trainer
Teaching Assistant, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2022-present
Courses: English Composition 101,
Advanced English Comp 401
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The Full Story
I believe that writing is resistance, it is a form of freedom fighting. It allows the writer to break out of the societal constraints that have been placed on her, composing a story of her own that resists misrepresentation. Writing is a spirited dance with one’s muses, and demons. The scribe can lead, or be led by the word. Whether performing a brisk salsa, a sensual slow grind, or a shimmy, the writer chooses the cadence, words tumbling forth bullet-like, or staccato. The written word gives one agency. I believe that the art of writing is spiritual in nature, the writer in tune with the sounds of life, and death, both spoken, and those unheard to others. The writer exists to give these sounds meaning, and it is good writing when the reader finds significance in what was previously unknown. Good writing is not about form, rather it is the feeling that springs from the page to ignite the reader.