Christopher Bernard is an award-winning poet, novelist and essayist, and a co-editor (with Ho Lin, Steven Hill, and Jonah Raskin) as well as the original founder of Caveat Lector. His third collection of poems, The Socialist’s Garden of Verses, won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was named one of the “Top 100 Indie Books of 2021” by Kirkus Reviews. He is also recipient of an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. His novels include A Spy in the Ruins,Voyage to a Phantom City, and Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. He also authored the middle-grade stories – If You Ride A Crooked Trolley... and The Judgment Of Biestia. His most recent book is The Beauty of Matter.

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