Berna Deane South has received the Harcourt, Brace, and World Fellowship for the Novel at the University of Colorado Writer’s Conference, the Indiana University Foundation Scholarship for the Novel, the Indiana University Scholarship for Poetry, and the Indiana University Writer’s Conference Citation for superior work in progress in the short story. She is also the recipient of the Award of Excellence – Short Story from the Festival of Missouri Women in the Arts. In 2004, South received the Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in Fiction Award.

Berna Deane lives with her husband, Frank South, in Delaware, where she is finishing her novel.