April Bernard

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April Bernard
Born1956 (age 6768)
New England, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Harvard University

April Bernard (born 1956) [1] is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair , Premiere , and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College. [2] In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. [2] She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker , the Boston Review , AGNI , Ploughshares , [3] Parnassus , and The New York Review of Books . [4]

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References

  1. "Miss Fuller A novel written by April Bernard Steerforth Press Publishing". www.steerforth.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 "April Bernard - Harman Writer-In-Residence Program - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences - Baruch College". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  3. "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  4. "April Bernard". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  5. "April Bernard - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". es.gf.org. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2022.