Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas and the collection Safe As Houses and 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 has twice been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. She teaches at NYU, The New School, and Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, and lives in Brooklyn, where she was the associate editor for One Story and Catapult. In spring 2020 she will be the Distinguished Kittredge Visiting Writer at the University of Montana. Her third book, Parakeet, is forthcoming from FSG in Spring 2020.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Marie-Helene Bertino
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014
2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas
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Listen to Bertino's interview on NPR
Studios
MacDowell
Marie-Helene Bertino worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…