Editor’s Note: Diamond Forde was a finalist for the 2020 Boston Review Annual Poetry Prize and her works appears in our annual literary anthology Ancestors.
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Editor’s Note: Diamond Forde was a finalist for the 2020 Boston Review Annual Poetry Prize and her works appears in our annual literary anthology Ancestors.
Diamond Forde’s debut collection, Mother Body, won the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and CLA’s Margaret Walker Memorial Prize. She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, whose work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere.
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