Biography

Rena J. Mosteirin is a graduate of Dartmouth College where she majored in Creative Writing and won the Sydney Cox Memorial Award (2005, 2007), the Grimes Prize (2007), and the Class of 1954 Award (2007). Additionally, Mosteirin is the recipient of the Anne L. Fitzpatrick Fellowship from the Robert Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Mosteirin's poetry and prose has been featured in Farmhouse Magazine, the Stonefence Review, Green Rock Publications , Untamed, Bloodroot and Ozone Park. Mosteirin was chosen by Lydia Davis as the winner of the 2008 Kore Press Fiction Chapbook award for her story "Nick Trail's Thumb." Davis writes:

"What a fresh and engaging story Mosteirin has written--with it's unusual setting, interesting form, arresting specifics, captivating insights, strong dialogue, and rhythmic prose. The writing and the vision alike are utterly persuasive."

Currently Mosteirin is using Twitter in an attempt to build a line-a-day relationship with the Great American Novel: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. This project is estimated to take somewhere between twenty and thirty years, most likely outlasting the popularity of Twitter itself.


Contact: Rena.J.Mosteirin@gmail.com.







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