Sean Bernard

Sean Bernard lives and teaches creative writing in southern California, where he serves as fiction editor for The Los Angeles Review and also edits the journal Prism Review. He holds degrees from Arizona, Oregon State, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his fiction has appeared in many journals including Epoch, CutBank, LIT, and Glimmer Train. He's won grants and awards from groups including Oregon Literary Arts, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Poets & Writers, and, in 2012, a literary fellowship from the NEA. His debut collection Desert sonorous won the 2014 Juniper Prize. Studies in the Hereafter is his debut novel.