Welcome to Bernadette Wagner's website. She's an author, editor, poet, mentor, and community-builder who loves to sing and garden, teach and learn, as well as write. Her latest manuscript, Situate Uranium, placed third in the John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Awards for Poetry. Judges Ali Blyth and Sally Ito said this of the work:

“The poet employs an arsenal of forms (among the less traditional are flightlogs, flashpoints, bulleted notes from a teach-in, and a found poem on the “macabre” chain of chemical half-lives beginning with Uranium-238) to grapple with the element that is fuel for nuclear fission, and Canadian complicity. From Hiroshima to Beaver Lodge District, Northern Saskatchewan, through research and personal narration, both beauty and horror collide in the poet’s fine work..."