Marie-Helene Bertino
Brooklyn, NY
Fiction
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Parakeet (NYTimes Editor's Choice) and 2 a.m. at The Cat's Pajamas, and the short story collection Safe as Houses. Awards include The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Short Fiction Award, The Mississippi Review Prize, The Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellowship and The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland. She teaches in the Creative Writing programs of NYU and The New School. In Fall 2023, she will join the Creative Writing faculty of Yale University. Her fourth book, the novel Beautyland, will be published in January 2024 by FSG.