Monica Berlin

Monica Berlin’s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, Witness, Diagram, RHINO, The Southeast Review, Third Coast, The Missouri Review, Fourteen Hills, New Orleans Review, and Memoir (and), among others. “The Eighteenth Week” was published in Passages North, and was awarded the 2009 Thomas R. Hruska Memorial Prize in nonfiction. She is also the nonfiction editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and the project director for The Knox Writers’ House digital archives of contemporary literature. Currently an associate professor at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, Berlin teaches creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, focuses on late twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, and serves as the associate director for the Program in Creative Writing.