Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of four poetry chapbooks, most recently To the Break of Dawn. He now makes his home in Oakland, with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes, where he co-edits Doveglion Press. Oscar has been a featured writer at a variety of venues and institutions including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Kearny Street Workshop, Rikers Island Penitentiary, San Quentin Prison, UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, NYU and many others. Oscar is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own), CantoMundo, IWL (Intergenerational Writers Lab) and VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation) writing fellow.

12 Ways: An Anthology of the 2007 Intergenerational Writers Lab (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2007), Points Not Found: Writings on the Meaning of Place (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2007), Same Time, Same Place (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2006), I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), From Page to Stage and Back Again: The 2003 National Poetry Slam (Wordsmith Press, 2004), New Lit Generation (Small Press Distribution, )

Achiote Seeds, CrossBRONX, In the Grove, OCHO, Parse, Volume I: Alchemy, Spindle Magazine, The November 3rd Club