L. R. Berger has received fellowships and support
for her work as a poet from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the PEN New England
Discovery Award, the MacDowell Colony, the Appalachia Poetry Prize,
the Blue Mountain Center, the New Hampshire Audobon Society, and
Hedgebrook. She was also granted a residency as Visiting Artist
at the American Academy in Rome. Her book, The Unexpected Aviary,
was published this summer by Deerbrook Editions Press. Her poems
have been widely published in journals and anthologies, and her
chapbook, Sightings, was published in 2001, as part of the
Walking to Windward series of N.H. poets by Oyster River Press.
She also assisted in the English translation from the Arabic of
Beginnings, a book of poems by Adonis. “In language that is hauntingly singular in its
music and its psychological tenor,” comments Teresa Cader,
author of The Paper Wasp, “Berger has wrested from a
difficult, and tenuous, even precarious life, a stubborn, intelligent,
and affirming poetry.” Berger has taught poetry and short fiction writing
for the last 15 years in New Hampshire and at the University of
Massachusetts in Boston. She also works as a psychotherapist in
Concord, New Hampshire, and lives in Contoocook. Sponsored by The Anne P. Nicholson '40 Distinguished Lecturer Series |
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