Pam Bernard

Pam Bernard lives along the Connecticut River in Walpole, New Hampshire, with her husband Harry, a painter and website designer. She is a poet, painter, editor, writing coach and mentor, and adjunct professor at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and Franklin Pierce University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Graduate Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and BA from Harvard University.

Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships, the Grolier Prize in Poetry, and a MacDowell Fellowship. She has published three full length collections of poetry, the last of which is a series of poetic narratives about the Great War, entitled Blood Garden: An Elegy for Raymond. Her novel-in-verse, entitled Esther, published by CavanKerry Press, will be released this spring, 2015.