A writer/artist from New Orleans, Bernardo Wade tries at poems and rides his bike around Bloomington, Indiana, because IU funds his present period of studying with others. He currently serves as associate editor of Indiana Review, is a Watering Hole Fellow, and moonlights as an equity and justice advocate. He was recently awarded the 2021 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize and has words in or forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, and others.