April Bernard

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April Bernard
Born1956 (age 67–68)
New England, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Harvard University

April Anne Bernard [1] (born 1956) [2] is an American writer, poet, and novelist.

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Early life and education

Bernard was born and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her father, Walter Bernard, held a BA from the University of New Hampshire and a PhD from MIT. For many years he was a research scientist at Sprague Electric. [3] Her mother, Claire, was a teacher, writer and librarian who taught 5th and 6th grade at the local elementary school. [4]

Bernard graduated from Mt. Greylock Regional High School in 1974. She attended Harvard University, earning a BA magna cum laude in History and Literature in 1978. [1] While at Harvard, Bernard was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the recipient of several awards including the Sonier Thesis Prize in History and Literature, the Untermeyer Poetry Prize, and the Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry. [1]

She earned a master's degree from Yale University [5] in 1981. [6]

Career

Writing

She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair , Premiere , and Manhattan, inc. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker , the Boston Review , AGNI , Ploughshares , [7] Parnassus , and The New York Review of Books . [8]

In 2017, Bernard was deputy editor of US Magazine. [9]

Academia

In the early 1990s, Bernard taught at Amherst College. [10] She later taught at writing at as part of the MFA program at Bennington College from 1999 to 2009. [11]

In Fall 2003, Bernard was the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. [12]

She is a professor of English and director of creative writing at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. [13]

Personal life

In 1981, Bernard married Peter Craig Freeman, the director of the Blum-Heiman Gallery in New York. [6] Bernard later was married to writer Marc Robinson. [10]

She has a son, Henry Robinson. [14]

Honors and awards

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

Novels

Anthology publications

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  11. ↑ "W.H. Auden and Campus Sexism: an Interview with April Bernard". LITERARY BENNINGTON. 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  12. ↑ "April Bernard - Harman Writer-In-Residence Program - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences - Baruch College". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  13. ↑ "April Bernard - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
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