Elizabeth Bernard

I have always loved to write. Both of my parents were editors, and I was greatly influenced by their enthusiasm for writing and reading as an important part of learning and growing up. I went to the Kenyon Review Young Writer's Program the summer before my junior year in high school and fell deeply in love with poetry and creative writing there. Ever since then, I have kept a journal every day and write poetry whenever I can in a notebook I always have with me. I want to write for the Odyssey to get a chance to continue to practice writing and share it with a community. I want to find a job some day where I can write or read for a living, and I hope writing for the Odyssey will be good practice for whatever lies ahead.