Bernardo Wade

Born and raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade received the Academy of American Poets Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize, the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, and the Third Coast Poetry Prize. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has published in The Nation, Ecotone, Guernica, and The Southern Review, among other places. He is the poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. His debut collection, A Love Tap, is forthcoming in October 2025.