L R BergerL.R. Berger has received fellowships and generous support for her work as a poet from The National Endowment of the Arts, The New Hampshire Council on the Arts, The PEN New England Discovery Prize, The MacDowell Colony, The Blue Mountain Center, The ppalachia Poetry Prize and Hedgebrook. She was also awarded a Visiting Artist's Residency at The American Academy in Rome. Her first collection, Sightings, was published by Oyster River Press. Berger has been widely published in journals and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, The American Literary Review, The American Voice, Descant, Gulf Stream and Ladies Start Your Engines (Faber & Faber). She also assisted in the English translation from Arabic of, Beginnings, by Adonis. From a statement about her work she says, The world dares us to love it; that terrible, sturdy brand of love that can sometimes be wrestled out of the condition of our lives. My poems are driven by an ongoing felt necessity to take up this dare. Berger has been teaching poetry and short fiction writing for fifteen years, most recently at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Read More Read Less