(3/17/2022) Rebecca Bernard, fiction reading & Cara Dees, poetry reading: 7 PM, Buttrick Hall 101
Rebecca Bernard’s debut collection of stories won the 2021 Non/Fiction prize from The Journal and is forthcoming from Ohio State’s Mad Creek Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Juked, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Fiction from the University of North Texas and an MFA from Vanderbilt University. Her work received notable mention in the Best American Short Stories of 2018. She is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Angelo State University. She serves as a Fiction Editor for The Boiler.
https://rebeccaibernard.com
Cara Dees is the author of the debut poetry collection, Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland (2019), selected by Ada Limón for the 2018 Barrow Street Book Prize. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She holds an M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. in English with Comprehensive Honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her work appears in journals such as The Atlantic, Best New Poets 2016 and 2019, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry Daily. Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland was also named a finalist or semifinalist for the Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, the St. Lawrence Book Award, and the Autumn House Rising Writers Prize.
www.caradees.com