CRAIG BERNIER
INSTRUCTOR OF WRITING
Office: 625 College Hall
Telephone: 412.396.4643
E-mail: bernierc@duq.edu
Office Hours Spring 2012:
Tuesday/Thursday 4:30-6:00 pm; Wednesday 10:00-1:30 pm
EDUCATION
U.S. Naval Cryptologic School
A.A., Macomb Community College
B.A., Wayne State University
M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh
Craig teaches in support of the core curriculum and co-leads the Ratio residential learning community. He also teaches introductory writing workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and a multi-genre course. He’s taught technical and professional writing here at Duquesne and a class on counter-culture in the Honors College. In 2006, he was a presenter at the Associated Writing Programs national conference and in 2009 presented at the Working Class Studies Association Conference. He serves on the First Year Writing Committee and aims to aid in the creation of a creative writing concentration in the future to bolster the department’s already outstanding opportunities for majors and non-majors alike.
A Jacob Javits Fellow from 2002 to 2005, Craig took his M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. He was a Presidential Scholar at Wayne State University before that. He’s studied with such nationally celebrated authors as Michael Byers, Lee Gutkind, Chuck Kinder, Chris T. Leland, and Lewis “Buddy” Nordan. Craig’s work has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Roanoke Review, Creative Nonfiction, and a collection of shorts by Akashic Books called Detroit Noir, and others. He is a four-time finalist for prizes at the prestigious Glimmer Train magazine. His most recent work appears in the current issue of Dogwood as a finalist for their fiction contest. Stewart O’Nan was the judge. He is putting the finishing touches on a collection of stories.
Craig is a former cryptologist serving from 1989 to 1999 with both the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserves. He is a decorated veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. He is a lifelong motorcyclist and enjoys year round riding and wrenching. He nurses a ’74 R90/6 around the city and uses a Paris Dakar version GS for more ambitious projects. A book of motorcycling essays is in the works.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
"The Manual of Heavy Drinking," Gigantic Sequins. Fall 2010
“Bender,” Dogwood: Journal of Poetry and Prose, Spring 2010
“Los Pueblos Blancos de Andalucia,” Lexicon. Spring 2008
“Migration,” (Story in a Collection) Detroit Noir. Akashic Books. Fall 2007
“An Affliction of Starlings,” Western Humanities Review. Volume-61 No.1, Winter 2007
“Listing in Detroit,” Roanoke Review. Volume-31, July 2006 Contest runner-up
“Mountaineer,” Creative Non-Fiction. Issue-28, Spring 2006
