Award Winners

2022 Chapbook Fellowship

Bridget O’Bernstein

Finalist

Lydia T. Liu

Bridget O’Bernstein author photo

Selected by Eileen Myles

Bridget O’Bernstein is a poet from Brooklyn who received her MFA in poetry from Syracuse University. She won the Perkoff Prize for poetry through the Missouri Review in 2022 and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize in 2019. She was also a finalist for the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and the American Literary Review Poetry Prize in 2019. Her poems and essays can be found in the Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and New Ohio Review, among others. She is a 2022 MSW candidate and works at an outpatient hematology and oncology practice.