Christopher Bernard is an award-winning poet, novelist and essayist, and a co-editor (with Ho Lin, Steven Hill, and Jonah Raskin) as well as the original founder of Caveat Lector. His third collection of poems The Socialist’s Garden of Verses won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was named one of “The Top Indie Books of 2021” by Kirkus Reviews. He is also recipient of an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. His novels include A Spy in the Ruins (“one of the best American novels since Thomas Pynchon and William Gass,” Miguel de Cervantes–award winning novelist Juan Goytisolo), Voyage to a Phantom City (“an enormous achievement,” award-winning translator Peter Bush), and Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. (“puts one in mind of Ulysses as much as Naked Lunch,” award-winning poet Ernest Hilbert). His most recent books are the middle-grade stories, the first in the “Otherwise” series, – If You Ride A Crooked Trolley... and The Judgment Of Biestia.

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