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Biography
Image: Kaitlyn Wood Photography
Alesa Bernat is the author of Everything Is Fine, a self-published poetry collection about Bipolar Depression. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in print and online literary journals and magazines such as Boreal Zine, Sad Girl Diaries, Black River Review, and North Star.
Bernat's poem "Elegy for Heartache Resurrected" received Honorable Mention in the Seneca Park Zoo's 2024 Nature Poetry Contest, Water Into Words. She participated in the Adirondack Center for Writing’s 2024 Poem Village and was featured in the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System's 70th Anniversary Anthology, True North: Words and Images from New York's North Country.
Bernat was part of the 2024 cohort of the “Artist as Entrepreneur Program” made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and St. Lawrence County Arts Council (SLC Arts).
About the Illustrator
Nik Barkley is the illustrator of the paintings and cover of Everything is Fine. He is a lifetime imaginative thinker, artist, and graphic designer. He resides in Massachusetts with his wife, 3 children and their rescue dogs. He has a particular knack for finding four leaf clovers everywhere.
Image: Nik Barkley Watercolor
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