April Bernard is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Brawl & Jag, her fifth collection of poems, was published this spring by W.W. Norton. Miss Fuller, a novel, came out in 2012. Her previous books of poems are Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye. Bernard is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other journals. She has received a Guggenheim and a Whitney Humanities Center fellowship. Educated at Harvard University, she worked in book and magazine publishing in New York City, and has taught widely. She is professor of English and director of creative writing at Skidmore College and a member of the faculty at the Bennington MFA in Writing program.
Portrait by Marion Ettlinger
