Award-winning author to give reading
Author Marie-Helene Bertino will hold a free reading of her work at 7 p.m. today in Burnett 103 at Washington & Jefferson College.
Bertino’s debut novel, “2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas,” was a Barnes & Noble fall 2014 Discover Great New Writers pick and an NPR Best Book of 2014, among others.
Her collection of short stories, “Safe as Houses,” received the Iowa Short Fiction Award, was named an Outstanding Collection by the Story Prize and was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize.
Awards include the O. Henry Prize (2016), a Pushcart Prize and two Pushcart special mentions (2007, 2011, 2017) and the Mississippi Review Story Prize (2007). She received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook Writers Colony and The Center for Fiction in New York City.
She is an editor-at-large at Catapult.