Writing
Bernard’s prose has been published in Third Coast, The South Carolina Review, The Literary Review, Craft, and elsewhere. Represented by Madison Smartt Bell of Ayesha Pande Literary Agency.
Editing
Bernard is currently a fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review. Bernard also works with independent writers and various brands.
Education, Awards, Honors
Bernard holds an MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University, where they were awarded the Carol Houck Smith Graduate Scholarship and the Deborah Tall Memorial Scholarship. Bernard has also received fellowships and residency support from The Anderson Center at Tower View, Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Mineral School, Vermont Studio Center, and the University of Cincinnati, where they earned a Ph.D. in creative writing.