Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Rebecca Bernard Education
Rebecca Bernard Education
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
SHORT STORY
“Gardening,” Colorado Review, forthcoming.
“Ashes in Queens,” Great River Review, forthcoming.
“The Crush,” Fiction Southeast, forthcoming.
“Harold, Protector of the Children,” Southwest Review, Volume 103.2, Winter 2018.
“First Date,” Witness, Vol 31.2, Summer 2018.
“Our Daughters Whose Blood,” Sou’wester, Volume 46, Spring 2018.
“How to be Another Person in Five Days,” Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 56, June 2017.
“This is Us Being Alive,” Meridian, Issue 38, January 2017.
“People We All Know,” Entropy, November 2016.
“The Maw of My Heart,” Bat City Review, Issue 12, 2016.
“Openings,” Epiphany, December 2014.
“How to Ensnare a Musk Ox in the Wild,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, March 2011.
NONFICTION
“Inadvertent Utterances of Sound (Causes of and Places Occurred),” The Pinch, forthcoming.
“How We Operate,” The Journal, Volume 38.4, December 2014. Nominated for a Pushcart
prize.
POETRY
“Saturday Night in the Suburbs,” Makeout Creek, Issue 6, January 2014.
“Memory Boxes,” “Untitled,” “Moving Day,” “Museum,” Grey Sparrow Review, April 2011
“Easel,” Word Riot, December 2010.
“Exposed Brick,” 322 Review, Issue 5, Summer 2010.
PHOTOGRAPHY
“Polaroids,” Breakwater Review, Issue 5, Fall 2011.
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ESSAYS
& INTERVIEWS
“Conversation with Jean McGarry,” Nashville Review, Summer 2011.
“Conversation with Lydia Peele,” Nashville Review, Spring 2011.
“Deleted Scenes,” The Writers’ Block, February 2011.
GRANTS, HONORS
& AWARDS
Best American Short Stories of 2018, Notable mention, “This Is Us Being Alive,” 2018.
The Rumpus, “This Week in Short Fiction,” special focus, May 2017.
Mary Patchell Scholarship, University of North Texas, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018.
Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize through &Now Books, The Maw of My
Heart, Semi-finalist. July 2016.
Curb Creative Writing Fellowship, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at
Vanderbilt University, 2012-2013
AWP Summer Literary Seminar Finalist. Partial tuition stipend received. April 2012.
INVITED TALKS
“Interview, Writing, and the Community.” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 24 October
2016.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Drafted a collaborative biography for an elderly member of the community that was
published in June 2011.
Co-drafted a treatise on the obligations of ethical biography writing.
Drafted numerous grants seeking funding for the organization.
Edited and organized transcribed Panamanian interviews for online storage.
Co-taught and planned a summer youth program on interview techniques and the history
of the 1950s utilizing backwards design.
Conducted multiple interviews with elders in the community of Murfreesboro.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
READINGS
The Burning Plain Reading Series, Denton, TX, December 11, 2018.
American Literary Review, Graduate Student Reading, Denton, TX, February 20, 2018.
Pegasus Reading Series, Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TX, December 1, 2017.
American Literary Review Graduate Student Reading, Denton, TX, September 30, 2017.
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American Literary Review Graduate Student Reading, Denton, TX, September 24, 2016.
Graduation Reading, Vanderbilt University, May 10, 2012
Graduate Student Reading Series, Sarratt Student Center, February 17, 2012.
Graduate Student Reading Series, Vanderbilt University, December 5, 2011
Graduate Student Reading Series, Vanderbilt University, March 31, 2011.
Graduate Student Reading Series, Vanderbilt University, December 7, 2010.
Fall for the Arts, The Commons at Vanderbilt University, October 7, 2010
CONFERENCES
Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Summer 2011.