Diamond Braxton “MANTÉ” (they/she) is a queer, mixed-race Black and Mexican-American writer, editor, and publisher based in san antonio, but was born and raised in houston for most of her life. They have work published or forthcoming in Autostraddle, southern humanities review, Foglifter, Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net anthology, Best Microfiction 2023, The Forge, Stanchion, Hellebore Press, ANMLY, and the forthcoming “I Love Us: Queer on the Borderlands” anthology (Flowersong Press, 2026). Her fiction story “Black pond” was selected as a finalist for the 2026 Fugue prose prize.

She is a Lambda Literary and Tin House workshop Alum and attended Hedgebrook in 2025 where she was named the 2025 Fellow for The Carol Shields Prize Foundation Residency. In 2026, she was named the residency fellow for black and/or indigenous writers from Sundress academy for the arts. She has a microchap with Belle Point Press (Series #9) and HOLDS AN mfa in fiction from texas state university.

In addition to her writing, she works in the publishing world and has held apprenticeships with Feminist press and sourcebooks. they are the Founder of Abode Press, an anti-racist 501(c)3 publishing press dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices, where they offer an affordable yearly writing retreat, a chapbook and full-length prize, and accessible virtual workshops for marginalized writers. she also teaches creative writing with Gemini ink and has been a reader for HEdgebrook, lambda literary, and ploughshares.

She is currently working on her first genre-bending collection of short stories and novel. Find them on the inter webs @DiamondGBraxton.

interested in working together?

email diamond@abodepress.com.