Bernadette Geyer

Bernadette K. Geyer (born June 16, 1968) is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in Berlin, Germany.

Bernadette Geyer
Bernadette Geyer reading at Iota Poetry Series, 2013
Born (1968-06-16) June 16, 1968
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAllegheny College
GenrePoetry

Life

She graduated from Allegheny College.[1] She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000;[2] she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a freelance writer/editor/translator in Berlin, Germany.[3]

Her writings and translations have appeared in Oxford American, The Massachusetts Review, Barrow Street, Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review,[4] 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.[5]

Awards
  • Selected by Cornelius Eady for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection imprint of The Word Works in 2012,[6] 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.[7]
  • Finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry,[8] and the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland Press,[9] 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
  • What Remains. Argonne House Press. ISBN 978-1-887641-50-0.
  • The Scabbard of Her Throat. The Word Works. ISBN 978-0-915380-85-5.
  • My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology, editor. Meerkat Press. ISBN 978-0-9966262-0-0

Non-Fiction

Anthologies
  • Robert Lee Brewer, ed. (2014). 2015 Poet's Market. Writer's Digest Books. ISBN 978-1-59963-844-7.
  • Rachel Hadas, ed. (2013). The Waiting Room Reader II. CavanKerry Press. ISBN 978-1-933880-34-1.
  • Deborah Ager, Bill Beverly, John Poch, eds. (2013). Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine. WordFarm. ISBN 978-1-60226-013-9.
  • Moira Richards; Rosemary Starace; Lesley Wheeler, eds. (2008). Letters to the World. Red Hen Press. ISBN 978-1-59709-099-5.
  • Robert L. Giron, ed. (2005). Poetic Voices without Borders. Gival Press. ISBN 978-1-928589-30-3.
  • Sarah Browning, ed. (2003). D.C. Poets Against the War. Argonne House Press. ISBN 978-1-887641-99-9.
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References
  1. "Moving Words Poetry Program". commuterpage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  2. Sustainable Development International. ICG Pub. 1999. ISSN 1466-4739. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  3. "Bernadette Geyer | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". pw.org. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  4. "Marlbororeview.com". marlbororeview.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  5. "Four Poets to Open Poetry at Noon Series - News Releases (Library of Congress)". loc.gov. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  6. "Vienna Writer Selected for Poetry Publication". Connection Newspapers Online. 8 March 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  7. "Artist Grant Recipients, 2018-2008" (PDF). Arts Council of Fairfax County. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2019-06-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-08-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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