Discipline: Literature – poetry

Pamela Bernard

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
Pamela Bernard is an American poet, author, and educator based in New Hampshire. Pam received her M.F.A from Warren Wilson College Graduate Program for Writers, and a B.A. from Harvard University in history of art. Pam is an adjunct professor at New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester and Franklin Pierce University. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships, and MacDowell. She has also won The Grolier Prize and the Pablo Neruda Prize. As well as teaching writing in the university setting, Pam teaches personal narrative privately in her home. Among the many journals in which Pam’s poems have appeared are TriQuarterly, Spoon River Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Marlboro Review, Nimrod, Sojourner, and Cimarron Review. Additionally, she has published four books, of which three are collections of poetry—Blood Garden: An Elegy for Raymond, Across the Dark, and My Own Hundred Doors. A novel in verse, Esther was published in 2015.

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Banks

Pamela Bernard worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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