Adria Bernardi is the author of In the Gathering Woods, a collection of stories awarded the 2000 Drew Heinz Prize. Her novel, The Day Laid on the Altar, was awarded the 1999 Bakeless Fiction Prize. She has translated Gianni Celati's Adventures in Africa, the poetry of Tonino Guerra in Abandoned Places, and Raffaello Baldini's theatrical monologue, Page Proof. She teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.