Emily Bernard (born 1967)[1] is an American writer and the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont.
[2] Emily Bernard was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
She earned a BA and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.
[3] The 2004 anthology Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships, was edited and introduced by Bernard.
[4] She is the author of books including Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White (2010) and Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, which won the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose in 2019.