J. A. Bernstein

J. A. Bernstein is the author of Rachel’s Tomb, which won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series Novel Prize and Hackney Award; Desert Castles, which won the Wilhelmus Prize at Southern Indiana Review; Northern Cowboy, which won the Wilt Prize; Glass Essays; and a forthcoming memoir, Afterlight. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in about a hundred journals and anthologies, including The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney’s, Washington Square, Boston Review, and Chicago Quarterly. His academic articles have appeared in The Conradian, Western American Literature, and other volumes, and won the Harkness Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America. A Chicago native and Fulbright Scholar, he is the fiction editor of Tikkun and an associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His website is: www.writingwar.com