Bernardine (Dine) Watson is a non-fiction writer and poet who lives in Washington, D.C. Her memoir, “Transplant,” won the 2023 Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize for nonfiction. “Transplant” also appeared on National Public Radio’s 2023 list of Books We Love. Dine was selected by Poets and Writers as one of their “5 over 50” debut authors for 2023 and was featured in the magazine’s November/December 2023 issue. Her poetry has been published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bourgeon/Mid Atlantic Review and Gargoyle Magazine. In 2023, two of her poems were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Dine is a member of the 2015 class of the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities Poet in Progress Program and the 2017 and 2018 classes of the Hurston Wright Foundation’s Summer Writers’ Workshop for Poetry.

Watson will be in conversation with Laura Fisher Kaiser.

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