Emily Bernard

Emily Bernard teaches English at the University of Vermont and is the author of five books, including Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine.
Objects of Desire

A Dingy White Mug

Holding on to my Nashville childhood
Emily Bernard
February 11, 2025
TYR Talks

Emily Bernard on Pursuing Your Truth as a Writer

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival
Emily Bernard
June 21, 2023
Essays

This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard
June 12, 2023
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

I Can’t Sleep

After days of witnessing racial violence, respite is no longer a given
Emily Bernard
June 15, 2020
Portrait of the author's mother
Essays

Stereopticon

Twelve ways of looking at my mother
Emily Bernard
January 1, 2020
A photograph of Ann Petry.
Essays

Nothing New Under the Sun

Ann Petry’s The Street and The Narrows
Emily Bernard
April 1, 2019