Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. Her work has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Story Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York City's Center for Fiction, and has twice been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing at New York University and Yale University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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North Of (2012)
Carry Me Home, Sisters of St. Joseph (2017)
North Of (2012)
Carry Me Home, Sisters of St. Joseph (2017)
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