Lillian Yvonne Bertram | |
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Nationality | African American |
Occupation(s) | Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston |
Academic background | |
Education | PhD, University of Utah
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BA, Carnegie Mellon University (2006) [2] |
Thesis | Personal science (2015 h) |
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an American poet known for their work on poetry and digital storytelling.
Bertram holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the creative writing program at the University of Utah, [3] in addition to degrees from Carnegie Mellon University [2] and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [4] Bertram is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. [5]
Bertram is known for their work on poetry, African-American poetry, poetics, digital storytelling, digital and computational poetics, media arts, and pedagogy. Their first book, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise is a series of poems that make note of mental and physical landscapes that portray the connection with body, space, time, and love. [6]
Bertram has published other books including Personal Science, a work that explores some occurrences that can result from obsessive thinking. [7] In April 2016, a slice from the cake made of air, was published and it processes the physical and mental trauma of abortions, as well as sexual desire and contemporary culture. [8] Published on December 1, 2019, Travesty Generator consists of poetry generated using an open-source coding and presents how the black experience has become homogenized, branded, and codified for the dissemination by capitalism. [9]
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link)In 2011, Bertram received the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award for their book But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise. [2] Bertram was the 2015 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Poetry Fellowship, [10] and the 2017 recipient of the Harvard University Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant. [11] In 2020 Bertram received the Anna Rabinowitz Prize for Travesty Generator, [12] which was also a nominee for the National Book Award for Poetry. [13]
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