Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award winning poet, educator and literary events coordinator who now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.  
  

Oscar has been a featured writer at a variety of venues and institutions including the Nuyorican Poets Café, 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, California College of the Arts, Columbia University, UNC Chapel Hill, NYU and many others.

His poems have appeared in Achiote Seeds, CrossBRONX. In the Grove, The November 3rd Club, OCHO, as well as in the anthologies From Page to Stage and Back Again (Wordsmith Press, 2004), I Just Hope It's Lethal:  Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), Points Not Found: Writings on the Meaning of Place (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2006), 12 Ways: An Anthology of the 2007 Intergenerational Writers Lab (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 2007), among others.