Emily Bernard is the author of a celebrated work of autobiography, Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time and Mine (2019)— a collection she conceived while recovering in the hospital from a random stabbing.

Her work has appeared in TLS, The American Scholar, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Harper’s, O the Oprah Magazine, the Boston Globe Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Green Mountains Review, Oxford American, and Ploughshares. Her essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays, Best African American Essays, and Best of Creative Nonfiction.

Presented by the NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany. Cosponsored by The Women’s Institute at Russell Sage College.

More information at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/emily-bernard