Sean Bernard

Sean Bernard lives in southern California and serves as Director and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of La Verne (where he also edits the journal Prism Review). His debut novel Studies in the Hereafter was published in 2015 (Red Hen), and his debut collection, Desert sonorous, won the 2014 Juniper Prize (UMass). He holds degrees from Arizona, Oregon State, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, and Glimmer Train. In 2012, he received a fellowship from the NEA.