The Art of the Short Story: Cara Blue Adams on You Never Get It Back with Marie-Helene Bertino

In Conversation

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  Cara Blue Adams

  Cara Blue Adams

  Cara Blue Adams is the author of You Never Get It Back, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award (University of Iowa Press, 2021). Her stories appear in many magazines, including Granta, the Kenyon Review, Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, and American Short Fiction. She has been awarded the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, the Missouri Review Peden Prize, and the Meringoff Prize in Fiction, along with The Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship and support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her essays, criticism, and interviews appear in the Believer, Tin House, and Ploughshares, and an essay about coediting the Southern Review appears in The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). She is an associate professor of creative writing at Seton Hall University and lives in Brooklyn.

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  Marie-Helene Bertino

  Marie-Helene Bertino

  Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Parakeet (New York Times Editors’ Choice) and 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas (NPR Best Books 2014), and the story collection Safe as Houses (Iowa Short Fiction Award). Her work has received The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize, The Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship, and The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, McSweeneys, Granta, BOMB, Guernica, and others. She has taught at NYU, The New School, Institute for American Indian Arts, and University of Montana, where she was the Distinguished Kittredge Visiting Writer. Her alien opus novel Beautyland is forthcoming from FSG.