Halsted M. Bernard

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Photo by Chris Scott.

When Halsted was four years old, she wrote a story about a giant rabbit that haunted her dreams.

The rabbit went away, but she kept writing.

Stories Halsted enjoys reading and writing are the ones that skulk around the edges of themes and genres — stories with puzzles and patterns and hints rather than answers.

Her formal education includes a bachelor’s degree in the structure and culture of the English language as well as a master’s degree in library and information science. Informally, she taught herself how to whistle like a train.

Halsted lives in Portland with her husband, their cats, several fountain pens, and many books. She joined Writers’ Bloc in 2012 and had a wonderful time performing with them before she headed back to the States.

  • Visit Halsted at cygnoir.net, which contains her fiction and non-fiction as well as her musings on expat life, fountain pen ink, and public libraries.
  • She is also quite enamoured of Micro.blog, bemused by Twitter, and downright hostile toward Facebook and Instagram.
  • Halsted loves interactive fiction, and recently started writing her own. Play “Departures”, a brief interactive story about the ways we leave. (Jam requirements: 300 words or less.)
Here are some recordings of Halsted’s original poetry.