[1] She is the author of three novels, Beautyland (2024), Parakeet (2020)[2] and 2AM at the Cat's Pajamas (2014),[3] and one short story collection, Safe as Houses (2012).

[9] After moving to New York City in 2003,[1] Bertino worked for a plaintiff's attorney as a biographer for people living with traumatic brain injury.

in Creative Writing at University College Cork,[12] an Associate Editor for One Story, and is an editor-at-large for Catapult.

[13] She has named Yōko Ogawa, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, and Amy Hempel as influences on her work.

[21] Safe as Houses notably includes the story "North Of," in which a woman brings Bob Dylan home for Thanksgiving dinner.

[31] Parakeet was a New York Times Editors' Choice,[32] a top-ten book of the year at the Huffington Post,[33] and was long-listed for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction[34] and the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.