Oscar Bermeo was born in Ecuador, raised in the Bronx, and now makes his home in Oakland, CA, where he is the poetry editor of Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes. He was the founding curator/host of the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase, and a founding curator/host of the synonymUS Collaborative Open Mic at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Oscar has been a featured writer at a variety of venues and institutions including the Bowery Poetry Club, Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Bronx Academy of Letters, Rikers Island Penitentiary, San Quentin Prison, the Loft Literary Center, Sacramento Poetry Center, UC Berkeley, Columbia University, UNC Chapel Hill, NYU and many others.

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