Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

• Name — Lillian Yvonne Bertram • Occupation — Associate Professor, University of Maryland • Education — PhD, University of Utah MFA, University of Illinois BA, Carnegie Mellon University (2006) • Thesis Title — Personal science • Thesis Url — https: www.worldcat.org/oclc/946964339 • Thesis Year — 2015 h

Bertram holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Utah, in addition to degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bertram is an associate professor at the University of Maryland.

Bertram is known for their work on poetry, African-American poetry, poetics, digital storytelling, digital and computational poetics, media arts, and pedagogy. Their first book, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise is a series of poems that make note of mental and physical landscapes that portray the connection with body, space, time, and love. Bertram has published other books including Personal Science, a work that explores some occurrences that can result from obsessive thinking. In April 2016, a slice from the cake made of air, was published and it processes the physical and mental trauma of abortions, as well as sexual desire and contemporary culture. Published on December 1, 2019, Travesty Generator consists of poetry generated using an open-source coding and presents how the black experience has become homogenized, branded, and codified for the dissemination by capitalism.

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