Biography
Demetrius “Meech” Buckley (he/they) is a poet and a creative nonfiction writer. Their writing uncovers the sociopsychological elements of personal and familial history by reflecting on generational trauma. His writing has been published in The Rumpus, The Yale Review, The Marshall Project’s Life Inside, and Prism. His essay “Death Around Da Corner” won Editors’ Choice Selection in CRAFT’s 2024 essay contest. His poem “The We” was a finalist for the 2024 Rattle Poetry Prize. Buckley’s collection Here Is Home won Cave Canem’s 2021 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize.
He is currently working as an editor for Apogee Journal’s Freedom Meridian. His writing has been supported by Empowerment Avenue, an organization that pairs incarcerated writers and artists with outside volunteers to facilitate distribution in the broader publishing and art worlds. He advocates for the abolitionist movement through Critical Resistance, an organization committed to ending the prison industrial complex. Buckley was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
