Bernadette Geyer

Bernadette Geyer
Bernadette Geyer reading at Iota Poetry Series, 2013
Born	(1968-06-16) June 16, 1968 (age 53)
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Allegheny College
Genre	Poetry

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

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[]

• "A Cheese-Lover's Guide to Berlin," culture: the word on cheese, December 2017.
• "Dorothy Parker". The Literary Encyclopedia. 27 April 2006.
• "Throwing off the Shackles of the To-Read Wish List," Submittable Blog, December 2017.
• "Broken Hallelujahs, poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty", Montserrat Review
• "A Fuel Cell Primer", IAEI News

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.

References[]

External links[]

• "Author's website"
• "10 Questions for Bernadette Geyer," by Amal Zaman, The Massachusetts Review, June 2017.
• "Carpe Noctem Anthology Interview with Bernadette Geyer," by Nicole Rollender, Carpe Noctem, January 2016.
• "Your Own Voice: An Interview with Bernadette Geyer", The Writer's Center
• "Interview with Bernadette Geyer", 32 poems, February 9, 2009
• "Barn Owl Review Contributor Interview: Bernadette Geyer", Barn Owl Review
• "Lessons for Acorns", The Green Tricycle, Issue 5