Miss Fuller (19 page)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

April Bernard is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Her first novel,
Pirate Jenny
, was published in 1990 and her poetry collections include
Romanticism, Blackbird Bye Bye, Psalms
, and
Swan Electric
. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including
The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation
, and
Slate
. Her honors include a Guggenheim award, the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, a Whitney Humanities Fellowship at Yale University, a Sidney Harman Fellowship, and the Stover Prize. She is Director of Creative Writing at Skidmore College and is on the faculty of the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars.