[I was in a hotel room, in an upper]; [I dreamed of my maternal grandmother, she and I]; [we were standing in the playroom, now the sunroom,]; & [i dreamed of my paternal grandparents; they were both in the dream,]

Adria Bernardi is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of literary essays, an oral history, and eight translations from the Italian. She has received the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award, and the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Award. “The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses”: Four Landmarks within the Tangles, Networks, and Knots of Gadda’s Pasticciaccio was published in 2026 by Bordighera Press.