Bernheimer continued his association with the New York School poets and the St. Mark's Poetry Project for several years after his graduation from Yale, and moved to San Francisco in 1976, where through Benson and Robinson he met other writers--such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten--who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets. Bernheimer wrote and performed for Poets Theater and produced and hosted the radio program of new writing by poets, "In the American Tree" on KPFA from 1979 to 1980. Since the early 1980s, Bernheimer has worked as a corporate communications executive for Bay Area technology companies. He is married to Melissa Riley, a San Francisco public librarian and freedom-of-information activist.
Born and raised in New York City, Bernheimer graduated in 1970 from Yale, where he became friends with poets Steve Benson and Kit Robinson, and studied literature with A. Bartlett Giamatti and Harold Bloom and poetry with Ted Berrigan, and Bill Berkson.
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