April Bernard is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Brawl & Jag, her fifth collection of poems, was published this spring by W.W. Norton. Miss Fuller, a novel, came out in 2012. Her previous books of poems are Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye. Bernard is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other journals. She has received a Guggenheim and a Whitney Humanities Center fellowship. Educated at Harvard University, she worked in book and magazine publishing in New York City, and has taught widely. She is professor of English and director of creative writing at Skidmore College and a member of the faculty at the Bennington MFA in Writing program.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
April Bernard
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Saratoga Springs, NY
MacDowell fellowships: 1990, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2003, Summer 2016
Studios
Sprague-Smith
April Bernard worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…