Rebecca Bernard Education
Rebecca Bernard Education
Rebecca Bernard Education
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
SHORT STORY
“Harold, Protector of the Children,” Southwest Review, forthcoming.
“First Date,” Witness, forthcoming.
“Our Daughters Whose Blood,” Sou’wester, Spring 2018.
“How to be Another Person in Five Days,” Smokelong Quarterly, June 2017.
“This is Us Being Alive,” Meridian, January 2017.
“People We All Know,” Entropy, November 2016.
“The Maw of My Heart,” Bat City Review, Issue 12, 2016.
“Openings,” Epiphany, December 2014.
“How to Ensnare a Musk Ox in the Wild,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, March 2011.
NONFICTION
“How We Operate,” The Journal, December 2014. Nominated for a Pushcart prize.
POETRY
“Saturday Night in the Suburbs,” Makeout Creek, Issue 6, January 2014.
“Memory Boxes,” “Untitled,” “Moving Day,” “Museum,” Grey Sparrow Review, April 2011
“Easel,” Word Riot, December 2010.
“Exposed Brick,” 322 Review, Issue 5, Summer 2010.
PHOTOGRAPHY
“Polaroids,” Breakwater Review, Issue 5, Fall 2011.
ESSAYS
& INTERVIEWS
“Conversation with Jean McGarry,” Nashville Review, Summer 2011.
“Conversation with Lydia Peele,” Nashville Review, Spring 2011.
“Deleted Scenes,” The Writers’ Block, February 2011.
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GRANTS, HONORS
& AWARDS
Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize through &Now Books, The Maw of My
Heart, Semi-finalist. July 2016.
Curb Creative Writing Fellowship, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at
Vanderbilt University, 2012-2013
AWP Summer Literary Seminar Finalist. Partial tuition stipend received. April 2012.
INVITED TALKS
“Interview, Writing, and the Community.” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 24 October
2016.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Processed multiple interviews providing detailed notes and analysis of primary source
materials.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
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READINGS
American Literary Review, Graduate Student Reading, Tom’s Daiquiris, February 20, 2018.
Pegasus Reading Series, Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TX, December 1, 2017.
American Literary Review Graduate Student Reading, Tom’s Daiquiris, September 30, 2017.
American Literary Review Graduate Student Reading, Tom’s Daiquiris, September 24, 2016.
Vanderbilt University, May 10, 2012
Graduate Student Reading Series, Sarratt Student Center, February 17, 2012.
Vanderbilt University, December 5, 2011
Vanderbilt University, March 31, 2011.
Vanderbilt University, December 7, 2010.
Fall for the Arts, The Commons at Vanderbilt University, October 7, 2010
CONFERENCES
Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Summer 2011.