Mistranslations

in the Kingdom of Wonder

the story of a senior Peace Corps volunteer in Cambodia

Tree Bernstein Résumé

Selected Publications & Awards

The Sun Magazine. Readers Write on Privacy: "In Cambodia

You Are Never Alone" essay. Sept. 2023

The Last Tourist in Bali, stories, Baksun Books. 2020
If Bees Are Few, “A/B/C Scenarios” poem. U. Minnesota Press. 2016
"Postcards from Cambodia" Peace Corps blog. 2015-17
Contributing reporter for Ventana Monthly. 2014-16
Contributing reporter for The Ojai Quarterly. 2010-16
Low Down & Coming On, “Regarding Pigs” poem.

Red Dragonfly Press. 2010
"Ask Ms. Metaphor: Poetic Advice for Everyday Use"

advice column. 2010-15 (print) 2020 (online)

Spark Talks at Naropa University's 50th Anniversary celebration. Featured speaker. Boulder, CO. Oct. 18, 2024

Martha Kate Thomas Fund for Artists, Boulder, CO. 2024

Jentel Artist Residency, Sheridan, WY. 2024

Jaipur Literature Festival Colorado. Author Series speaker. 2019
Writer in Residence at Hypatia-in-the-Woods, Shelton, WA. 2017

Finalist: Nowhere Magazine Nonfiction Travel Writing Contest.

"King Javavarman the VII & the Bell Ringer" essay. 2021

Finalist: Peace Corps worldwide Blog It Home competition. 2016
Finalist: Boulder Weekly’s 101-Words Fiction Contest. 2016; 21
First Prize: Blue ribbon—apricot jam! Ventura County Fair. 2014
Grants, Ventura CA, California Poets in the Schools (CPITS) for underserved area schools. 2013-15
Grant, Boulder Arts Commission (BAC) Arts & Humanities Assembly

of Boulder (AHAB), for "A Poet's Alphabet" anthology. 2000
Grant, BAC and AHAB for publication of "Elements" anthology. 1999
Grant, Colorado Council of the Arts, "Sumo Haiku Heavyweight Championship" event. 1999

Prose Prize: Boulder Planet Fiction Contest, "Pictures." 1997

Writing Workshops & Teaching Experience

New Views of Old Stories, 3-day writer's workshop, Sept/Oct 2024

Memoir of a Moment, a one-day writer's workshop at Firehouse

Art Center, Longmont, CO. May 2024

Memoir of a Moment, a one-day writer's workshop at Sage Art

Center, Sheridan, WY. February 2024

It's All Memoir, a one-day writer's workshop at the Dairy

Arts Center, Boulder, CO. 2023

I Have a Dream, a 4-week poetry workshop for elementary-school students, Longmont, CO. 2023

Story, 4-week writer's workshop Longmont, CO. 2023

Poetic Forms, 4-week writer's workshop, Longmont Senior

Center, CO. 2022-23

Teaching Experience, cont.

Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher of English & Art,

Cambodia. 2015-17

Poetry Workshop Leader & Area Coordinator for California

Poets in the Schools (CPITS), Ventura County, CA. 2010-15

Poetry Coach, Poetry Out Loud. 2010-15

Adjunct English professor, Brooks Photography Institute,

Ventura, CA. 2004-15

Adjunct English professor, Ventura County Community

College, Ventura, CA. 2004-15

Adjunct English Professor, Rocky Mountain College of Art

& Design, Denver, CO. 2001-02

Recent & Upcoming Art Exhibitions

The Big Draw, “Buckthorn Near & Far” & "Strawflower Stars" cyanotype-photo-drawing. Arvada Center, CO. 2023

Lafayette Arts & Cultural Resources Dept. biennial Lost & Found: Found Objects exhibit. "Birdy" found glove w/poem. CO. 2023

Marshall Renews Art Exhibition, "What Remains; Reframed; Reclamation" cyanotype-photocollage triptych. Benefit for Marshall Fire victims. Louisville, CO. 2023

On Edge, "Moonlight Ride" cyanotype photocollage,

Edge Gallery, Denver, CO. 2022

Art of the State, “Once in a Blue Moon” cyanotype photocollage, Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO. 2022

Happiness, “Flower Photobombers” Exhibizone online. 2021

Green Show, “Green Gallery” metal photo, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO. 2021

Escape, “Look Homeward Angel” photocollage, Next Gallery, Denver, CO. 2021

Backroads: Art Less Traveled, “Acolytes Ascend into the Blue Mystery” collage at Vestige Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. 2021

Blue “Goddess of the Dawn” photo collage at O’Hanlon Arts,

Mill Valley, CA online. 2021

Knickers in a Bunch. “Strange Dreams” collage online. 2021

Pink Progression, “Middle of the Story” original book forgeries; collaboration with painter Irene Delka McCray at Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO. 2020

RAW Artists National Arts Drive. Sidewalk chalk portrait,

“Harriet Tubman: Black Lives Matter” Longmont, CO. 2020

"Postcards from Cambodia" photos & poems exhibition at

Ojai Art Center, Ojai, CA. 2017

Education

Cert TESOL, Trinity College London at Indonesia/Australian Language Foundation, Denpasar, Bali. 2002

MFA Writing & Poetics. Naropa University, Boulder, CO. 1991

BA English. University of Colorado at Boulder. 1987