Diamond Forde’s debut collection, Mother Body, won the 2019 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her awards and prizes include the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, the College Language Association’s, and Margaret Walker Memorial Prize. Forde has been a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, and a Tin House Fellow. Her work has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, and Tupelo Quarterly. She has served as the fiction editor for Nat. Brut and interviews editor for Honey Literary. Forde earned a B.A. in English from the University of West Georgia, an MFA from the University of Alabama, and PhD in African American Poetics from Florida State University. She is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University.
