Iri­na Reyn is the author of What Hap­pened to Anna K and The Impe­r­i­al Wife. She is also the edi­tor of the anthol­o­gy Liv­ing on the Edge of the World: New Jer­sey Writ­ers Take on the Gar­den State. She has reviewed books for the Los Ange­les Times, San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle, Pitts­burgh Post-Gazette, Min­neapo­lis Star-Tri­bune, The For­ward, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. Her fic­tion and non­fic­tion has appeared in One Sto­ry, Tin House, Ploughshares, Town & Coun­try, Trav­el, and Poets & Writ­ers. She teach­es fic­tion writ­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh. She lives in Pitts­burgh Penn­syl­va­nia and Brook­lyn NY.