Ten Questions for Marie-Helene Bertino

“Intuition is enough.” —Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Exit Zero
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“Intuition is enough.” —Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Exit Zero
“The short story form offers me a way to indulge my obsessions and experiment with various genres and narrative modes.” —Julia Elliott, author of Hellions
“The magic happens in the writing, on the page. That’s the high.” —Mariam Rahmani, author of Liquid: A Love Story
“Don’t worry about aesthetic categories or limitations. Have fun.” —Jonathan Fink, author of Don’t Do It—We Love You, My Heart?
“All good poems are love poems.” —Bruce Bond, author of The Dove of the Morning News
“I love when a poem is getting there, when I can’t stop coming back to it.” —Alise Alousi, author of What to Count
“Adjust one small plot point in the second half of the book, and you realize you’ve got to go back to the beginning and account for that change.” —Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart
Ten writers, including Alex Dimitrov and Kaitlyn Greenidge, share the best writing advice they’ve ever heard.
“Eventually, like a banner, the imagination unfurls itself.” —Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days
Ten writers, including Brandon Taylor and Kate Zambreno, share the best writing advice they’ve ever heard.