Sean Bernard

Sean Bernard's story collection Desert sonorous was awarded the 2014 Juniper Prize, his novel Studies in the Hereafter was published in 2015 by Red Hen Press, and he’s the recipient of a prose fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. His second novel, Can Writing Be Taught & Other Novel Ideas, is out from What Books in Fall 2026. Additionally, he has been the editor of the literary journal Prism Review since 2008. He holds degrees from Arizona, Oregon State, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, studying with Geoff Becker, Tracy Daugherty, and Marilynne Robinson, among many others. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals, and his work has been honored by groups including Jentel Artists Residency Program, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Poets & Writers, Sierra Arts Foundation, and Oregon Literary Arts.