MFA Programs in Writing present readings by
Ted Dodson and Marie-Helene Bertino
All are welcome to join!
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Humanities Gateway 1030
6pm
Ted Dodson is the author of An Orange (Pioneer Works / Wonder, 2021), co-translator of Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (Action Books, 2026), and finalist for the 2026 Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is a contributing editor for BOMB, an editor-at-large for Futurepoem, and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter. Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of five works of fiction, most recently Exit Zero, a story collection. Her novel Beautyland was an American Book Award Winner, a National Book Critics Circle Finalist, a New York Times Notable 100 and Time Magazine Top 10 Book of 2024. A two-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction (2025), The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Short Fiction Award, and The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland. She is currently the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University.
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of five works of fiction, most recently Exit Zero, a story collection. Her novel Beautyland was an American Book Award Winner, a National Book Critics Circle Finalist, a New York Times Notable 100 and Time Magazine Top 10 Book of 2024. A two-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction (2025), The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Short Fiction Award, and The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland. She is currently the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University.