Deborah Bernhardt’s first collection, Echolalia, was published by Four Way Books in 2006 as the winner of the Intro Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of Driftology (New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM Chapbook Prize). She received two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and fellowships/grants from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing (Halls Fellowship), Wisconsin Arts Board, Penn State Altoona (Writer-in-Residence), the Tennessee Arts Commission, Writers@Work, Summer Literary Seminars in Russia and the Hessen Literary Society, Germany.