Bernice Slote (November 17, 1913 – February 22, 1983), a Willa Cather scholar, was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Her poems had begun to appear in leading journals around the country: The Atlantic Monthly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Voices, Poetry Chap-Book, etc.
She edited Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications (1963), and Literature and Society: Nineteen Essays (1964), and wrote numerous articles on literary subjects.
In addition to writing, editing, lecturing, teaching, advising graduate students, and supervising doctoral candidates, Slote also moderated a KUON-TV discussion panel (Conversation Piece).
She was also active on the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Memorial in Red Cloud, the Nebraska State Poet Laureate Commission, and the Western Literature Association.