Bernadette Geyer


Bernadette K. Geyer is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in Berlin, Germany.

Life

She graduated from Allegheny College. She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000; she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a writer/editor/translator in Berlin, Germany.
Her writings and translations have appeared in Oxford American, The Massachusetts Review, Barrow Street, Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review, 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.

Awards

  • Selected by Cornelius Eady for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection imprint of The Word Works in 2012, 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.
  • Finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry, and the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland Press, for Dead Men
  • 2000 Moving Words Competition.

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  • The Scabbard of Her Throat. The Word Works..
  • My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology, editor. Meerkat Press.

Non-Fiction

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