Bernadette K. Geyer (born June 16, 1968) is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in
Berlin, Germany
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Life
She graduated from
Allegheny College
Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1815, Allegheny is the oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is a member of the G ...
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She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000;
she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a writer/editor/translator in
Berlin, Germany
Berlin ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of ...
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Her writings and translations have appeared in ''Oxford American,
The Massachusetts Review
''The Massachusetts Review'' is a literary quarterly founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It receives financial support from Five Colle ...
, Barrow Street, Hotel Amerika'', ''The Marlboro Review'',
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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
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Awards
* Selected by
Cornelius Eady for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection imprint of
The Word Works in 2012, 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.
*Finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry, and the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland Press,
for ''Dead Men''
* 2000 Moving Words Competition.
Works
"WHITE HOUSE PLUMBER, 27 YEARS"; "FACTORY, MILAN"; "THE ROSE FORGETS ITS BEAUTY"; "I BECOME LIKE PROUST"; "THE FOOT REMEMBERS ITS FAVORITE SHOE"; "THREE BIRDS", ''Beltway Poetry Quarterly'', Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 2007"MY MOTHER’S THUMBS", ''THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL'', September 16, 2007"Lessons", ''American Journal of Nursing,'' May 2010"Parable of the Great Outpouring", ''Heron Tree,'' 2 February 2014"Not Necessarily in Order", ''Poetry Midwest'', Winter 2004"Thumbelina’s Mother Speaks: To the Toad’s Mother", ''32 Poems'', Fall 2008
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*''The Scabbard of Her Throat''. The Word Works. .
*''My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology'', editor. Meerkat Press.
Non-Fiction
"A Cheese-Lover's Guide to Berlin," ''culture: the word on cheese'', December 2017."Dorothy Parker". ''The Literary Encyclopedia''. 27 April 2006."Throwing off the Shackles of the To-Read Wish List," ''Submittable Blog'', December 2017.
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20081126222940/http://www.fuelcells.org/info/library/iaeinews.pdf "A Fuel Cell Primer", ''IAEI News''
Anthologies
* Robert Lee Brewer, ed. (2014). ''2015 Poet's Market''. Writer's Digest Books. .
* Rachel Hadas, ed. (2013). ''The Waiting Room Reader II''. CavanKerry Press. .
* Deborah Ager, Bill Beverly, John Poch, eds. (2013). ''Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine''. WordFarm. .
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References
External links
"Author's website""10 Questions for Bernadette Geyer," by Amal Zaman, ''The Massachusetts Review'', June 2017."Carpe Noctem Anthology Interview with Bernadette Geyer," by Nicole Rollender, ''Carpe Noctem'', January 2016.
* ttp://blog.32poems.com/928/interview-with-bernadette-geyer "Interview with Bernadette Geyer", ''32 poems'', February 9, 2009br>"Barn Owl Review Contributor Interview: Bernadette Geyer", ''Barn Owl Review''
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1968 births
Living people
People from Vienna, Virginia
Allegheny College alumni
American women poets
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers