Bio
Rosaleen Bertolino was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently living in Mexico. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her M.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her awards include a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and an Honorable Mention for the James D. Phelan Award. She has twice been a finalist for Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award, and has been a writer in residence at the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, during 2008, 2007, and 2006. She is co-founder and host of the reading series Prose Cafe, based in San Miquel de Allende, Mexico, and the winner of the 2019 Many Voices Project Prose competition. Her debut collection, "The Paper Demon and Other Stories," was released New Rivers Press in the fall of 2021 and was a handpicked book at Small Press Distribution..
borrowing ears from one of my favorite paintings (by Violet Bertolino)
Publications:
Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 41, Fall/Winter 2021
What We Talk About When We Talk About It, Volume 2, Winter 2020
Orca, Summer 2020
Dear Writer: Stories That Just Weren't a Good Fit at the Time (anthology), Marlarkey Books, 2020
Litro, Story Sunday, March 2020
failbetter, March 26, 2020
New England Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2019
Vassar Review, 2019
Blood & Bourbon, Spring 2018
Superstition Review, Issue 21, 2017
Storyscape, Issue 19, 2017
New England Review, Volume 38, 2017
West Marin Review, Volume 7, 2016
Gravel, November, 2016
The Capra Review, Fall, 2016
Euphony, Winter, 2016
The Blotter, September, 2013
Sparkle & Blink, September, 2012
The MacGuffin, Winter 2011
Pure Francis, March 14, 2010
fictionatwork.com, August 19, 2009
Tiferet, Issue 11, August 15, 2009
West Marin Review, Summer 2009
Southern California Review, Spring 2009
Prick of the Spindle, March 2009
The Chicago Reader, December 25, 2008
Dark Sky, July 27, 2008
Stringtown, 10th Anniversary Issue, 2007
Marginalia, Fall 2007
Tertulia, April 10, 2007
Parting Gifts, Winter 1999
Hawaii Pacific Review, 1992
The Wandering Mother: A Collection of Prose and Poetry, 1989
Emerging Island Cultures: A Collection of Stories and Poems, 1984