Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Beautyland, Parakeet (NYTimes Editor’s Choice), and 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Best American Short Stories series, Electric Literature, Tin House, Granta, Guernica, BOMB, among others. 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 is the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University. Her second collection of short stories will be published by FSG in 2025.
