April Anne Bernard[1] (born 1956)[2] is an American writer, poet, and novelist.
Early life and education
Bernard was born and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her father, Walter Bernard, held a BA from the University of New Hampshire and a PhD from MIT. For many years he was a research scientist at Sprague Electric.[3] Her mother, Claire, was a teacher, writer and librarian who taught 5th and 6th grade at the local elementary school.[4]
Bernard graduated from Mt. Greylock Regional High School in 1974. She attended Harvard University, earning a BA magna cum laude in History and Literature in 1978.[1] While at Harvard, Bernard was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the recipient of several awards including the Sonier Thesis Prize in History and Literature, the Untermeyer Poetry Prize, and the Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry.[1]
She earned a master's degree from Yale University[5] in 1981.[6]
In 2017, Bernard was deputy editor of US Magazine.[9]
Academia
In the early 1990s, Bernard taught at Amherst College.[10] She later taught at writing at as part of the MFA program at Bennington College from 1999 to 2009.[11]
She is a professor of English and director of creative writing at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.[13]
Personal life
In 1981, Bernard married Peter Craig Freeman, the director of the Blum-Heiman Gallery in New York.[6] Bernard later was married to writer Marc Robinson.[10]
