Rena J. Mosteirin teaches creative writing workshops at Dartmouth College and owns Left Bank Books, a used bookstore in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is the author of Disaster Tourism (BOA, 2025), Experiment 116 (Counterpath Press, 2021) and co-author, with James E. Dobson, of Moonbit (punctum books, 2019) and Perceptron (punctum books, 2024). Her novella Nick Trail’s Thumb (Kore Press, 2008) won the Kore Press Short Fiction Award, judged by Lydia Davis. Her work has been published in The Common, The Rumpus, New York Magazine, New England Review, The Southampton Review, no tokens, The Puritan, and elsewhere in print and online. Mosteirin is an editor at Bloodroot Literary Magazine and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.