Betsy Orient Bernfeld
Writer, Librarian, Lawyer
New Release!
Dec. 20, 2023
A humorous
environmental love story
featuring
the Henry David Thoreau
of the Southwest.
Available NOW from
Wintergoosepublishing.com
& Amazon.com
The history is ours
and it burns.
To begin to believe.
Viva!
Blazing!
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Can the tree sense the ease
of her transfigured hand,
her luminous fingers,
her breath whispering
across the hardened face
like the flutter of a bird?
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Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Betsy Bernfeld is a librarian, lawyer and writer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She is recipient of the 2020 Wyoming Arts Council’s Poetry Fellowship and is author of two volumes of poetry, Eve (2018) and The Cathedral Is Burning (2021).
The Journal of Henry David Tarantula is Betsy’s first novel, released this fall from Winter Goose Press. It was shortlisted in the 2016 Santa Fe Writer’s Project and a finalist in the 2017 New Rivers Press Many Voices Project.