Biography
Bernd Sauermann served as professor of writing, literature, and film at Hopkinsville Community College in Kentucky for 20 years and was Visiting Professor of Writing at Adams State University in Alamosa, CO from 2019 to 2020. He was born in Hof, Germany, in 1961 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1969. He holds a B.S. in anthropology from Northern Arizona University, and an M.A. in English and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He’s had poems, stories, photos, and videos published in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, McSweeney’s, Southern Indiana Review, Anti-, New Orleans Review, Nimrod, Conduit, Poet Lore, The Kansas Quarterly Review of Literature, Unlikely Stories, Open 24 Hours, and many other journals. His chapbook, Diesel Generator, was published by Horse Less Press in 2013, and his chapbook Diagrams & Nomenclature was published by White Knuckle Press in 2015. His full-length books of prose poems include Seven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song, published in 2014 by Mad Hat Press, and Redshift, which was published by Lit Fest Press in 2015.
