Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the Saturnalia Poetry Prize judged by Patricia Smith. She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, recipient of the Margaret Walker Memorial Prize and the 2019 Georgia Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review and elsewhere.

Books by Diamond Forde:

Other poems on the web by Diamond Forde:
Two poems
"my ex-boyfriend is a dick joke"
Three poems
"My Mother Gave Me a Coin Jesus and I Am Still Alive"
"Fat Fuck"
Three poems
Three poems

Diamond Forde's Website.

Diamond Forde on Twitter.

About Mother Body:

"In this rollicking, audacious debut, Diamond Forde celebrates, mourns and redefines the journey of the fat girl through a landscape fixed on her disappearance and destruction. Forde brands this groundbreaking work with a subversive, self-assertive signature fixed unerringly on its target--anyone and everyone who refuses to recognize the fat girl for the wonder she truly is."
—Patricia Smith