Adria Bernardi is a writer and translator whose publications include an oral history, a
collection of essays, a collection of short stories, two novels, and eight translations
from the Italian. Her work has been awarded the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, the Drue
Heinz Literature Prize, and the Raiziss/DePalchi Translation Award.
Her novel Benefit Street was awarded the 2021 FC2 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction and published by The
University of Alabama Press.