Carole Bernstein

Carole Bernstein is the author of two poetry collections from Hanging Loose Press: Buried Alive: A To-Do List and Familiar, as well as a chapbook: And Stepped Away From the Circle (Sow’s Ear Press). Of Buried Alive: A To-Do List, Patrick Donnelly said, “This wonderful book stokes in me a furnace of purifying rage… against the new Nazis and the old ones, and against onrushing darkness in all its forms.” J. D. McClatchy called Familiar “exhilarating” and Daniel Hoffman wrote, “Impassioned honesty marks this memorable first book.” Bernstein’s poems have been widely published, including in Amethyst Review, Antioch Review, Bridges, Chelsea, The F-Word, Hanging Loose, The Ledge, Light, Paterson Literary Review, Poetica, Poetry, Rat’s Ass Review, Shenandoah, and Yale Review. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press), The Laurel Hill Poetry Anthology (Laurel Hill Press), Moms on Poetry (momsonpoetry.com), Poetry Ink (Moonstone Press), Unsettling America (Viking), and The Weight of Motherhood (Moonstone Press). Work is forthcoming in Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State University Press). Born and raised in Brooklyn, Bernstein lives in Philadelphia and works as a freelance writer and marketing consultant. She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She is grateful to have had her first-ever publication in Hanging Loose’s high school section. www.carolebernstein.com/creative-works