Writing Behind Walls
Teaching a creative writing workshop at a men’s prison in Iowa.
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Amy Bernhard's essays appear or are forthcoming in Hazlitt, The Rumpus, Vice, Ninth Letter, and The Iowa Review, among others. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and currently teaches creative writing at The University of Texas in Arlington. You can follow her on Twitter @amybernhard.
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