EventS

September 16th, 2026, 7:30pm ET, Jim Shepard book launch for The Queen of Bad Influences, Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY

September 23rd, 2026, 6:30pm ET, Brooklyn Public Library, Whitman Circle Series, Brooklyn, NY

October 17th, 2026, 9pm, Cork Short Story Festival reading, Cork, Ireland, UK

November 2, 2026, 7pm ET, Thalia Book Club, 2001: A Space Odyssey, panel with Alice Sola Kim and Rivka Galchen, Symphony Space, NYC

January 27th, 2027, 7pm ET, The O. Henry Prize Stories with Tommy Orange, Symphony Space, NYC

April 8th, 2027, Time TBA, Villanova University Literature Festival, Villanova, PA

May 2-7th, 2027, Writing Workshops Dublin (applications currently open), Ireland, UK

  “Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician.” — Molly Young, The New York Times

NEWS

“Flowers and their Meanings,” originally published in The Baffler, has received the O. Henry Prize for Short Stories

Exit Zero has been named Electric Literature’s #1 short story collection of 2025

MHB has been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction

Exit Zero reviewed in the The New York Times by Molly Young: “Through all of Exit Zero, Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician.”

“Lottie Woodside and the Diamond Dust Cher,” a new short story, published in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, introduced by Yuka Igarashi

“Viola in Midwinter,” originally published in Bennington Review, was selected for Best American Short Stories 2024