Marie-Helene Bertino

Marie is the author of Safe as Houses, winner of the 2012 Iowa Short Fiction Award (University of Iowa Press; October 2012). Contest judge Jim Shepard raved, “Marie-Helene Bertino’s stories are hilarious and heartbreaking and wildly inventive, and her narrators are endlessly appealing and both fiercely proactive and stubbornly self-defeating. That’s more than enough for me.” Marie’s short stories have been published in The Mississippi Review, North American Review, Indiana Review, The Common, and American Short Fiction, among others, and she was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2009. Marie was a 2011 Center for Fiction Fellow, and she was the Associate Editor of One Story for six years.