Bernadette Esposito completed two sections of her book-length essay "The Principle of the Fragility of Good Things," a meditation on plane crashes. These sections, crafted from interviews and rendered as narrative, grapple with themes of belief, proof, and survival. They required revisiting and growing themes and motifs of earlier essays on the same topic, which have appeared in Best American Essays, have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and have been long-listed in Best Horror Writing. Her essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, The Normal School, Hotel Amerika, and others. She won The Iowa Review Award for nonfiction and has been awarded fellowships from the Yaddo Corporation, the Ucross Foundation, the Jack Kerouac House, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and others. She holds a certification in air disaster investigation from the National Transportation Safety Board Training Center and an S-212 from Colorado Fire Camp. She teaches writing at Maine College of Art in Portland.
Bernadette Esposito
Studios
Phi Beta
Bernadette Esposito worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…