Bernadette Geyer

Poet

Berlin
Germany
DE

Author's Bio

Bernadette Geyer is the author of the full-length poetry collection The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works, 2013) and editor of My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology (Meerkat Press, 2015). Her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Fourteen Hills, Oxford American, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She lives in Berlin, Germany, where she works as a writer, editor, and translator. Geyer's second full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from April Gloaming in 2025.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
2015 Poet's Market (, 2014)
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Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine (WordFarm, 2013)
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Waiting Room Reader: Stories to Keep You Company, Vol. 2 (CavanKerry Press, 2013)
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Poetic Voices Without Borders, 2 (Gival Press, 2009)
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Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008)
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Poetic Voices without Borders (Gival Press, 2005)
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D.C. Poets Against the War (Argonne House Press, 2004)
Books:
What Haunts Me (April Gloaming Publishing, 2025)
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My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology (Meerkat Press, 2015)
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The Scabbard of Her Throat (Word Works, 2013)
Chapbook:
What Remains (Argonne House Press, 2001)
Journals: ,
American Journal of Nursing
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Barrow Street
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Birmingham Poetry Review
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California Quarterly
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Connecticut River Review
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Door is a Jar Magazine
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Dos Passos Review
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Ellipsis
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Evansville Review
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Heron Tree
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Hotel Amerika
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La Petite Zine
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Marlboro Review
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Mid-American Poetry Review
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Midwest Quarterly
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Poetry Ireland Review
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Potomac Review
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Verse Daily
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Prizes won: 

In 2012, Geyer's manuscript was selected by Cornelius Eady for publication by The Word Works. Recipient of a 2010 Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax County (Virginia). Moving Words Poetry Prize (2000, 2004, 2007). Geyer was a Jenny McKean Moore Scholar at The George Washington University in 2004 & 2005.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
McKeesport
Raised in: 
Glassport, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: May 24, 2025