Bertha Rogers

Bertha Rogers work has been published widely in journals and magazines, including Barrow Street, Connecticut Review, Karamu, Midwest Quarterly, Many Mountains Moving, and Yankee. Her collections include Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991) and For the Girl Buried in the Peat Bog (Six Swans Artists Editions, 1999.) She has received residence fellowships to the MacDowell and Millay Colonies and to Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers and Hedgebrook Foundation. She is the founding director of Bright Hill Press, a not-for-profit organization, and developer and administrator, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts, of the NYSCA Literary Curators Web Site. She has just won the Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society chapbook competition for her collection A House of Corners, due to be published in September, 2000. Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000 by Birch Brook Press, and her chapbook, A House of Corners, winner of the Maryland Review Poetry Chapbook Award, was published in 2000 by Three Conditions Press.