Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of numerous poetry collections, including But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, chosen by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2010 Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award; Personal Science; and Travesty Generator (Noemi Press, 2019), winner of the 2020 Poetry Society of America Anna Rabinowitz Prize for interdisciplinary work. First Place winner in Narrative’s Eight Annual Poetry Contest, Bertram teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Photograph by Dennison Bertram.