Diamond Forde

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, and the College Language Association's Margaret Walker Memorial Prize. Forde is 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, the Tupelo Quarterly, and others. She serves as the fiction editor for Nat. Brut and the interviews editor for Honey Literary.

Forde earned a B.A. in English from the University of West Georgia, an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University.