Curriculum Vitae

ELIZABETH ANNA BERNAYS

Degree

Master of Fine Arts (nonfiction) 2006, University of Arizona, USA

My principal current projects include a childhood memoir and

a book-length manuscript about art in myTucson home.

Publications

Poetry

Earth.  In: Poetalk, Fall 2002 p2,  Berkeley, California 

On Watching a Tobacco Hornworm. 2003  In: A Hard Road to Hoe, 

Spring 2003 VI pp11-12, Healdsburg, California

Biologist Grieving In Antipodes,  December 2002 Vol.16, no 2 p 163, Vassar NY 

Desert Rain  In Poetalk, Summer 2003 p103, Berkeley, California

Through the Glass at Patancheru In: Poetalk, Spring 2003 p17 Berkeley, California

Desert Rain: In Curbside Review (Jan 2004)

Desert, Earth and Hands : In Ruby Fruit (2005)

From Australia, The Dive: In Ruby Fruit (2006)

Waking. In:  Dream International Quarterly,  Champaign, Illinois

Orange Grove Road. In Potpourri, Prairie Village, Kansas

Kumquat. In Bogg,  Arlington, Virginia

Separation.  in Ginosko summer 2008

Essays

Breakfast Served All day. In:  California Monthly    February 2003

The Man from Hunter Brothers. In: The Fossil Record Fall 2003 on the WEB, 2004 print version

Variety and Black Grasshoppers.  In: Blessed Pests of the Beloved West: an Affectionate Collection on Insects and Their Kin Eds. Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb and Terril L. Shorb 

Native West Press 2004

Jaws. In: Snowy Egret Spring 2005 pp9-13

West Shed. In: Noneuclidean Café June 2006

Sierra Interlude. In Summerset Review June 2006

Love in the Motor Home  In Conte vol 2 issue 3 "Between Seasons” Aug 2006

Desert Time In: Eclectica Fall 2006

Indian Pastiche In: Driftwood I.iii 23-37 2007

Home Thoughts on a Picture. In. Antipodes Dec 2007

Canals and a Solex. In Stone Table Review vol. 2, 2007

Renewal. In Fence 2008

The Long View.  In Shine 2008

Strawberry Summer. In SNReview winter 2008

 Motherhood.  In. The Day After Tomorrow. Book Ed. Valerie Wallace

Poppies. In Segue August 2008

A Walk at Limantour Beach in Sylvan Echo July 2008

A Game of Cricket  in Antipodes  Dec 2008

Yellow in Copper Nickel 10, Oct 2008

The Hawk Moth’s Progeny in Snowy Egret 2009

Miscellaneous

The Gumnuts.  University of Queensland children’s book. 1962

Marvellous Munching Melanoplus. Tucson Unified School District Manual and

DVD Lesson Plans 1994

Saving Pocket. Children’s book published by Lulu 2007

Awards

Desert Rain: Bay Area Poets Coalition Poetry Competition:

Third prize in midi category, January 2003

University of Arizona Foundation Award, Spring 2006

Honorable mention in Writing it Real Contest, 2006

First Prize XJ Kennedy Award for Creative Non Fiction, Rosebud Magazine, 2007

First Prize in Essay section of Brainerd Writer’s Alliance Contest, 2007

First Prize for nonfiction in 5th Texas Laughing Gull Writing Contest,  2008

Finalist in Press 53 nonfiction contest, 2008

Residencies

Mesa Refuge:  May 2005

Artcroft: June 2007

Hambidge: August 2007

Ucross: September 2007

Andrews Forest: 2008

Excerpt from Desert Time, 2006

"Reg and I are silent. We are partners in every sense. I know he thinks as I do, of the sights of the past two days, the villages of Ayoru, Tillaberi, and Ansongo, with their low mud houses and narrow streets full of people and animals in the cool of the morning, classic barren desert beside the wide brown river Niger, large decorated boats being loaded with grain to be paddled or motored downstream to bigger towns. There is a wide alluvial strip between barren desert and water that is almost luminous-green with rice, turning the adjacent red sand dunes into a delusion."