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Sean Bernard directs the BA Creative Writing Program at the University of La Verne. His 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, will be published by What Books in Fall 2026.
Additionally, he has been the editor of the literary journal Prism Review since 2008. From 2021-2025, he served on AWP’s Board of Directors and from 2021-24 as prose editor for Veliz Books, editing collections by Allison Wyss, Kathleen March, and Anu Kandikuppa. 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 journals including The Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, The Gettysburg Review, and Glimmer Train, 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.
- novel-in-progress about waiting tables, fires in the Western US, and becoming a better liar through writing
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