Keri Bertino is a writer and teacher in Columbia University's graduate Writing Program, where she received her MFA in Fiction. She has taught for 20 years in classrooms spanning Baltimore City and New York City Public Schools; academic writing at Columbia, The Cooper Union, and CUNY; and professional development for educators and businesses. She formerly served as the director of the Writing Center at Baruch College, CUNY, where she was the recipient of the Baruch College Excellence Award for Service to the Baruch Community. Her writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Joyland, Topic, BOMB, Electric Literature, The Millions, Columbia Journal, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and two children.
