About Sean Bernard
Ordinary Bio: Sean Bernard directs the creative writing program at the University of La Verne in southern California, where he edits the journal Prism Review. He also serves on AWP’s Board of Directors and as Fiction Editor for Veliz Books. He holds degrees from Arizona, Oregon State, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his fiction …
Studies in the Hereafter
A disillusioned office bureaucrat in the afterlife has come to realize that maybe heaven isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Bored by the endless routine of work, golf, and vegan food, he finds his one saving grace in his Field Studies: detailed reports he compiles on the living in order to determine their best …
Desert sonorous: stories
Undercover space aliens share an RV outside Tucson. A high school girl tries to make sense of the shooting of Gabby Giffords. Basketball fans stalk their team’s head coach. A young couple falls in and out of love over the course of several lifetimes. And teenage cross-country athletes run on and on through these ten …
Nuclear
Winner of the 2012 CutBank Chapbook Contest One night, I saw my wife with Ginny. I’d offered to take the trash out, a pizza box, really, so the grease wouldn’t smell through the night. I saw them in the kitchen, huddled over glasses of wine. Ginny reached out when my wife started crying. Two …