Alesa Bernat
Publications and Collections
Made From Midnight: a requiem
A Poets in the Pines Anthology
It’s midnight, darling, the hour has come...
Made from Midnight: a requiem is a haunting composition of poetry, short fiction, and hybrid prose that honors death—of parents, of self, a pet, dreams, and fears... Part graveyard and part garden, this collection of award-winning authors attempt to uncover the things we bury and the things that bury us.
Together, they compose a song of great suffering and redemption, one that arrives at an uncomfortable truth: we will never be the same.
Everything is Fine
by Alesa Bernat
This raw look at mental health, family, love, and spirituality will leave you breathless. Alesa Bernat’s debut poetry and prose collection, Everything Is Fine, speaks honestly of the hidden wars within us and the unintended casualties we cause carving a path out of our darkness.
2025 - "Break Up" and "To Be Played On Flute"
"Made From Midnight: a requiem" Poets in the Pines Anthology
2025 - "Paper Mother"
Boreal Zine, Issue 18: Spring 2025: Gestation
2025 - "Cry of a Crow"
Boreal Zine, Issue 17, Hibernal: Pie
2024 - "Unsuitable Elements"
Boreal Zine, Issue 16, Anarchy
Black River Review, A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Fine Arts: Volume XXXIV
2011 - "Songbird of Jealousy", "Smile", and "Neurological Lover"
North Star, Plattsburgh State University College Literary Journal
2009 - "Modern Hunting"
Black River Review, A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Fine Arts: Volume XIX
Yokel Magazine, Issue No.1, October 2025
OUTSTANDING CREATIVE WRITING AWARD RECIPIENT
Black River Review, A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Fine Arts: Volume XXXV
HONORABLE MENTION, Seneca Park Zoo's 2024 Nature Poetry Contest, Water Into Words
2024 - "When the Midsummer Comes, I Live as a Neuroptera"
"True North: Words and Images from New York's North Country", Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System 70th Anniversary Anthology
Sad Girls Diaries, An Online Literary Magazine
2010 - "Grandmother"
North Star, Plattsburgh State University College Literary Journal
2008 - "Berry Lemonade"
Black River Review, A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Fine Arts: Volume XVIII
Literary Journals,
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Everything is Fine
