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Hello, I'm Karla Bernardo. I'm an intellectual property lawyer, who recently received my LL.M. (Master of Laws) from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. I teach part-time and conduct IP lectures for law students and professionals.

I spent eight-and-a-half years of my life at the University of the Philippines, where I graduated with degrees in Juris Doctor and Creative Writing. It is also where I learned how to speak a bit of Italian, got a taste of the best tapsilog, and took striptease for PE.

Other unnecessary facts about me: I've seen Carly Rae Jepsen live twice. My most listened-to podcast is Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend. I obsess over Saturday Night Live and Jeopardy reruns. I’ve read the Fleabag script so many times it’s basically my emotional support document; I own an alarming number of She-Hulk comics and merch (it’s not hoarding if it’s about a green, sarcastic, lawyer superhero living her best chaotic life, and who I completely identify with, okay?) And if you ever see me eating something with pure, unbridled joy? It’s salmon sashimi. Always salmon sashimi.

I love telling stories, as much as I enjoy finding them.


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Featured Works




Stargirl (Cover story for Nadine Lustre, Scout, January-February 2017)
Surreal / So Real (at Scout)
Ode to a Great Love's 17-year-old Self (Love.Life, Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Postcard from Diliman (Youngblood, Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Former Editor for Philippine Law Register
A Call to Arms (January 2017)
Expecting the Expected (March 2016)

Former Writer for Stache
The Hero's Journey (June 2013)
The 8 People You Become In Your Youth (June 2013)
The Best Bad Idea That Is Argo (April 2013)
Mike Ross Remembers Everything You Don't (August 2012)
Style Between the Riffs (August 2012)
Book Lovers Never Sleep Alone (June 2012)
A Spectrum of Change (December 2011)
Digital Art (October 2011)
Elements of Style (June 2011)
In Her White Dress (All-Art April 2011 issue)

Morning After Pill (Fervore: Literary Folio 2013, UP Portia Sorority)
How To Make a Blueberry Cheesecake (Kalas: Kalasag Literary Folio 2011, UP College of Arts and Letters)
January 14th (100: The Hundreds Project, UP Writer's Club)

An Ode to The Pillow Book (at New-Slang)
Introductions (at TeenInk)
One by One (at TeenInk)

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