Bernard was born in 1942 in
Melbourne, Australia. Bernard's first work to be published was in 1981 under the pseudonym of Judy Bernard-Waite with
The Riddle of the Trumpalar which was written with
Judy Nunn and Fiona Waite. In 1983 she wrote her first solo book,
We Are Tam, and in 1986 she, along with Nunn and Waite, wrote the sequel to
The Riddle of the Trumpalar, entitled
Challenge of the Trumpalar. From 1988 to 1999 Bernard wrote six more novels including
The Outcast Trilogy and one piece of short-fiction which was featured in an anthology edited by
Paul Collins. Book one of
The Outcast Trilogy,
The Outcast was a short-list nominee for the 1997
Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel but lost to
Isobelle Carmody's
Greylands and
Eye to Eye by
Catherine Jinks. During her life Bernard has travelled to many countries including Cuba where she was the first resident of
New South Wales to be given a visa for Cuba. ==Bibliography==