Diamond Forde

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Diamond Forde is a Black poet and the author of The Book of Alice (Scribner, 2026) and Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. 

The recipient of awards and fellowships from the Furious Flower Poetry Center, the College Language Association, Great River Review, Callaloo, and Tin House, she has served as a visiting poet for the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. Forde lives in Asheville, North Carolina.