Rebecca Bernard is the author of the story collection Our Sister Who Will Not Die (Mad Creek Books, 2022) which was selected by Nick White as the winner of the 2021 Non/Fiction prize held by The Journal. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Oxford American, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Wigleaf, Hotel Amerika, and the Southern Indiana Review among other journals. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Vanderbilt University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. She is an Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University.