Adria Bernardi’s publications include an oral history, a collection of essays, a collection of short stories, and two novels. Her translations from the Italian include the prose of Gianni Celati and the poetry of Tonino Guerra and Raffaello Baldini. She was awarded the 1999 Bakeless Prize for Fiction, the 2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the 2007 Raiziss/DePalchi Translation Award, and the 2021 FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. She has taught fiction writing at Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Clark University in Worcester, Mass. She lives in Nashville. (updated 6/2021)