About
Allyn Bernkopf is an Austrian-American poet and educator from Northern Utah. She earned her MA in English & Creative Writing from Weber State University & is a Ph.D. Candidate in Poetry, Poetics, and Literature at Oklahoma State University where she was the recipient of the Gladys Burris Creative Writing Fellowship and is an Associate Editor for The Cimarron Review. She has been an Emily Dickinson Museum Tell It Slant Festival Reader, she's served on the National Undergraduate Literature Conference Panel (WSU 2017), and the Sigma Tau Delta Graduate Panel (WSU 2016).
Her work has been nominated for Best of Net, nominated for and awarded a New York State Summer Writer's Institute Scholarship, nominated for the AWP Intro Award, and has won 3rd place for the Academy of American Poets Prize twice. As a professor, she was nominated for a Crystal Crest Master Teacher Award (2016). Her research interests include ecofeminism, American poetry and poetics from the 18th-21 centuries, affect theory, and Austrian history.
Along with her publications, she has also been anthologized in Women's Voices Anthology (These Fragile Lilacs 2017) and Lost: Reflections (Medusa's Laugh Press, 2017).
