About Darah

Darah Schillinger is a writer and editor based in Lexington Park, MD. In 2022, she graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a B.A. in English and a double minor in creative writing and philosophy. While in undergrad, Darah worked as the editor-in-chief of her campus literary magazine, AVATAR, and in 2023 she worked as the editor-in-chief for Towson’s literary magazine, Grub Street.

Much of her writing reflects her opinions on our current social climate and focuses on body-positive feminism, but lately she’s been writing a lot of ‘dead-grandmother poems’. Her poems have appeared in AVATAR Literary Magazine, the Yellow Arrow Journal 2022, Maryland Bards Poetry Review 2022 and 2024, Empyrean Magazine, Grub Street Vol. 73, The Eunoia Review, and on the Spillwords Press website.

In spring of 2023, Darah won the CSPA Gold Circle Award in Nonfiction through the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for her Letter from the Editor, and in October 2024, her poem, An elegy for the Pompeii woman the Internet wants to fuck, was named a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Her first poetry chapbook, when the daffodils die, was released in July 2022 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her second collection, Still Warm, is a work in progress.