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Marie-Helene Bertino\\xa0is the author of the novels\\xa0PARAKEET\\xa0(New York Times Editors\\u2019 Choice) and\\xa02 A.M. AT THE CAT\\u2019S PAJAMAS\\xa0(NPR Best Books 2014), and the story collection SAFE AS HOUSES\\xa0(Iowa Short Fiction Award).\\xa0Her fourth book, the novel BEAUTYLAND, is forthcoming from FSG.

Her work has been translated into eight languages, and has received The Frank O\\u2019Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland, The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize and two special mentions, fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Writers Colony, The Center For Fiction NYC, and Sewanee Writers Conference, where she was the Walter E. Dakin fellow. Her work has twice been featured on NPR\\u2019s \\u201cSelected Shorts\\u201d program. A former\\xa0editor for One Story\\xa0and\\xa0Catapult, she teaches fiction in the MFA programs of NYU and The New School. In Spring 2020 she was the Distinguished Kittredge Visiting Writer in University of Montana\\u2019s MFA.

She has worked as a biographer for people living with\\xa0Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

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