Daemond Arrindell is a poet, playwright, performer and teaching artist. Adjunct Faculty at Seattle University; a 2013 Jack Straw Writer; and a 2014 VONA Writer’s Workshop fellow. He has written for City Arts and Cross Cut magazines and been commissioned repeatedly by Seattle and Bellevue Arts Museums. More recently, Daemond co-adapted the acclaimed novel “Welcome To Braggsville,” by T. Geronimo Johnson into a stage production for Book-It Repertory Theater and starred in his first one-man show, “Frozen Borders,” a performative exploration in imagery, poetry and emotion on the subject of the United States’ southern border.