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Bernadette Geyer
Bernadette Geyer reading at Iota Poetry Series, 2013
Bernadette Geyer reading at Iota Poetry Series, 2013
Born (1968-06-16) June 16, 1968 (age 56)
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAllegheny College
GenrePoetry

Bernadette K. Geyer (born June 16, 1968) is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in Berlin, Germany.

Life

She graduated from Allegheny College.[1] She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000;[2] she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a freelance writer/editor/translator in Berlin, Germany.[3]

Her writings and translations have appeared in Oxford American, The Massachusetts Review, Barrow Street, Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review,[4] South Dakota Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Potomac Review, Gargoyle, 32 poems, The Evansville Review, culture: the word on cheese, AFAR Magazine, Birmingham Poetry Review, and the 2015 Poet's Market.

She read at the Poetry at Noon Series at the Library of Congress.[5]

Awards

  • Selected by Cornelius Eady for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection imprint of The Word Works in 2012[6], resulting in the publication of her first full-length book, The Scabbard of Her Throat
  • Recipient of a 2010 Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax County.[7]
  • Finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry,[8] and the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland Press,[9] for Dead Men
  • 2000 Moving Words Competition.

Works

Non-Fiction

Anthologies

References

  1. ^ "Moving Words Poetry Program". commuterpage.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  2. ^ Sustainable Development International. ICG Pub. 1999. ISSN 1466-4739. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  3. ^ "Bernadette Geyer | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". pw.org. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  4. ^ "Marlbororeview.com". marlbororeview.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  5. ^ "Four Poets to Open Poetry at Noon Series - News Releases (Library of Congress)". loc.gov. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  6. ^ "Vienna Writer Selected for Poetry Publication". Connection Newspapers Online. 8 March 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  7. ^ "Artist Grant Recipients, 2018-2008" (PDF). Arts Council of Fairfax County. Retrieved 3 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/series%20pages/poetry.html
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-08-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)