The Common Foundation – 2017 Author Postcard Auction
Auction Ends: Dec 10, 2017 09:00 PM EST

Memorabilia

Personalized Postcard from Marie-Helene Bertino

Item Number
145
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
50 USD to Ellen24
Number of Bids
2  -  Bid History

Item Description

Receive a handwritten note from the O. Henry Prize-winning author of "Exit Zero."

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas and the story collection Safe as Houses. Her work was a Barnes & Noble Fall ’14 Discover Great New Writers pick and an NPR Best Book of 2014, and has received The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize and two Pushcart special mentions, The Iowa Short Fiction Award (judged by Jim Shepard), The Mississippi Review Prize, Outstanding Collection by The Story Prize and inclusion on the long list of the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook Writers Colony, and NYC’s The Center for Fiction. She has been featured on Symphony Space NYC’s “Selected Shorts” radio program and is an Editor-at-Large at Catapult. She is the current Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow at The Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, where she is teaching at University College Cork and finishing a new novel and collection.

Item Special Note

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