Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an American poet known for their work on poetry and digital storytelling.

Lillian Yvonne Bertram
NationalityAfrican American
Occupation(s)Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston
Academic background
EducationPhD, University of Utah

[1]
MFA, University of Illinois


BA, Carnegie Mellon University (2006) [2]
ThesisPersonal science (2015 h)

Education and career

Bertram holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the creative writing program at the University of Utah,[3] in addition to degrees from Carnegie Mellon University[2] and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[4] Bertram is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[5]

Writings

Bertram is known for their work on poetry, African-American poetry, poetics, digital storytelling, digital and computational poetics, media arts, and pedagogy. Their first book, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise is a series of poems that make note of mental and physical landscapes that portray the connection with body, space, time, and love.[6]

Bertram has published other books including Personal Science, a work that explores some occurrences that can result from obsessive thinking.[7] In April 2016, a slice from the cake made of air, was published and it processes the physical and mental trauma of abortions, as well as sexual desire and contemporary culture.[8] Published on December 1, 2019, Travesty Generator consists of poetry generated using an open-source coding and presents how the black experience has become homogenized, branded, and codified for the dissemination by capitalism.[9]

Selected publications
  • Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2019). Travesty generator. [Blacksburg, Virginia]. ISBN 978-1-934819-84-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2012). But a storm is blowing from paradise : poems (1st ed.). Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press. ISBN 9781597091688.
  • Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2017). Personal science. North Adams, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-1-936797-91-2. OCLC 962750135.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2016). A slice from the cake made of air (First ed.). Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press. ISBN 978-1-59709-341-5.

Awards and honors

In 2011, Bertram received the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award for their book But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise.[2] Bertram was the 2015 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Poetry Fellowship,[10] and the 2017 recipient of the Harvard University Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant.[11] In 2020 Bertram received the Anna Rabinowitz Prize for Travesty Generator,[12] which was also a nominee for the National Book Award for Poetry.[13]

References
  1. Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2015). Personal science (Thesis). OCLC 946964339.
  2. Carnegie Mellon University (March 22, 2011). "Alum Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Wins Award for Poetry Collection". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  3. Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2015). Personal science (Thesis).
  4. Poetry Foundation (2020-01-07). "Lillian-Yvonne Bertram". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  5. "Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, PhD". University of Massachusetts Boston College of Liberal Arts. University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  6. Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2012). But a storm is blowing from paradise : poems (1st ed.). Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press. ISBN 9781597091688.
  7. Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2017). Personal science. North Adams, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-1-936797-91-2. OCLC 962750135.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2016). A slice from the cake made of air. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press. ISBN 978-1-59709-565-5. OCLC 961415861.
  9. Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne (2019). Travesty generator. [Blacksburg, Virginia]. ISBN 978-1-934819-84-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. "Lillian-Yvonne Bertram". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  11. "Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship". Harvard Library. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  12. "Announcing the 2020 Anna Rabinowitz Prize winner, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram". Poetry Society of America. May 18, 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  13. Williams, John (18 September 2020). "National Book Awards Names 2020 Nominees". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
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