Dr. Diamond Forde (she/her) is the author of the forthcoming collection, The Book of Alice (Scribner Books, 2026), and her debut, Mother Body (Saturnalia Books), chosen by Patricia Smith for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize in 2019. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, and elsewhere. You can find more at her website: www.diamondforde.com