Bio
Bernadette Wagner grew up on a small family farm forty-five minutes north of Regina. The gently rolling parkland instilled in her the spirit of the prairies, a love of land, and a commitment to community. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in journals, anthologies, and magazines and on radio, television and film, in schools, on stages, in the streets and on the web.
She has been recognized with the Jerry Rush Scholarship, the W. O. Mitchell Bursary Award, an apprenticeship in the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers and a Saskatchewan Arts Board Individual Assistance Award.
She extends her gratitude to the strong writing community in Saskatchewan, including the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and its many excellent programs, her family, friends, and communities for their love and support, and Thistledown Press, her publisher, for helping her to make a dream come true. This hot place is her first book.
Hey, Bernadette! Congratulations on your recent award! You are one of the first people I remember welcoming me into the SWG community. You are a great encourager and I’m so proud to know you as you start down your publishing path!!!
Haha! Thanks, Sheena. I’ve always had a place in my heart for you. Reading your blogposts, I’m thinking that maybe it was Land talking to me, telling me this woman’s a good one. Keep writing, my friend!