Your Life Idyllic

Fiction. "Craig Bernier's collection of short stories, YOUR LIFE IDYLLIC, is a stunning debut, a work of startling power and vision. When I finished reading his book and reluctantly closed the cover, I found myself recalling the thoughts and feelings I had entertained when I first read some of the greats of short fiction: Ray Carver, Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips and more recently, Thom Jones. I believe Bernier's book belongs on the shelf next to these aforementioned wonderful and important writers."--Chuck Kinder


About the Author
Craig Bernier is originally from a southeastern Michigan foundry town turned suburb. He is a veteran of Desert Storm and Desert Shield and served with the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserves. He graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit and was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh from 2002 to 2005 where he earned his MFA. Before becoming a teacher, Craig worked a range of occupations from technical writer to bartender, carpenter to dish washer, cryptologist to kennel cleaner. His stories have appeared in "The Roanoke Review, Western Humanities Review, Dogwood, Gigantic Sequins," and in a story anthology from Akashic Books titled "Detroit Noir." His nonfiction has been published in the journal "Creative Nonfiction." Home is currently Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania where he is at work on a novel and a collection of motorcycling essays.