Dara T. Mathis is an essayist and reporter whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, The New York Times, and other media outlets. Mathis was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize in 2024.
Her writing has received support from The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, VONA, Kweli Journal, and the Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop Book Project. She is a former parenting and lifestyle staff writer at Romper.
While at MacDowell, Mathis worked on her memoir-in-progress, Daughter of the Black Madonna. She also wrote portions of an untitled essay on horror, motherhood, anxiety, and Black matrilineal lineage.
