Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Parakeet (NY 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, and The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland. She teaches in the creative writing programs at NYU and The New School. Her fourth book, the novel Beautyland, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Santino Fontana is known for his Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Award-winning portrayal of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the Broadway production of Tootsie, and for voicing the character Prince Hans in Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated feature Frozen. Additionally, he has starred in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; 1776; and Zorba with Encores!; and on Broadway in The Importance of Being Earnest (Clarence Derwent Award); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award); Act One; Billy Elliot; Cinderella (Tony nomination); and Hello, Dolly! His onscreen credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sisters, Shades of Blue, Mozart in the Jungle, Submissions Only, Off the Menu, Impossible Monsters, Fosse/Verdon, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Just One Kiss.
Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of ten works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into critically acclaimed movies, and The Leftovers and Mrs. Fletcher, which were adapted into HBO series. His most recent novel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win, was published in June 2022.
Amber Tamblyn is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award–nominated actress, writer, and director. She is the author of seven books, including the critically acclaimed Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution. Her latest book, Listening in the Dark, is an anthology reclaiming the power of women's intuition. Tamblyn reviews books of poetry by women for Bust and is a contributing writer for TheNew York Times and The Cut, writing on themes of gender inequality and women's rage.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, mostly recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel.
CREDITS
“A Woman Driving Alone” was commissioned by Symphony Space for the collection Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories, edited by Hannah Tinti, published by Algonquin Books. © 2022 by Symphony Space.
“Nine Inches” by Tom Perrotta, from Nine Inches (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). Copyright © 2013 by Tom Perrotta. Used by permission of Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents.
