Marie-Helene Bertino

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the short story collection Safe as Houses, and the novels Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas and, most recently, Beautyland. Beautyland has been named a Best Book of 2024 (So Far) by The New York Times, Goodreads, The Guardian, Time, Esquire, and Elle Magazines. Awards include The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Short Fiction Award, The Mississippi Review Prize, The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland, and inclusion in the O. Henry/PEN Prize and Best American Short Story anthologies. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, Granta, Guernica, BOMB, among others. She has taught in the Creative Writing MFA programs of NYU, The New School, and Institute for American Indian Arts.  In June 2021, “Disrupting Realism,” an online master class and panel she designed to make graduate level resources available at no charge, was attended by 1,300 people. She is currently the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University. Exit Zero, her second short story collection, will be published by FSG in 2025.

More info: www.mariehelenebertino.com

updated August 2024