Lena Moses-Schmitt’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris-American, Conte, THRUSH Poetry Journal, and Superstition Review, and she was a finalist for Crab Orchard Review’s 2013 Rafael Torch Literary Nonfiction Award. She is the associate editor emeritus of Blackbird and the 2013–2014 Levis Fellow for the coordination of the Levis Reading Prize. She has worked as an editorial assistant at National Public Radio.  

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