Diamond Forde

Diamond Forde is a Black poet who has published with Saturnalia Books and Scribner. Her debut, Mother Body, won the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. Her second book, The Book of Alice, won the 2025 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Forde's work has appeared in SWWIM Every Day, Obsidian, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, and Massachusetts Review. She has held fellowships from Callaloo and Tin House. She teaches as an assistant professor at North Carolina State University.