Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

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

[1]
MFA, University of Illinois


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

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

Education and career

Bertram holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from 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 Maryland.[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. ^ a b c 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". University of Maryland Department of English. University of Maryland. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  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.