Adeena Reitberger is a writer, teacher, and the editor and co-director of American Short Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Fence, Mississippi Review, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, Nimrod International Journal, NANO Fiction, and elsewhere and has been listed as notable in the Best American series. Her editorial work has garnered attention and awards such as the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize, Best American, O. Henry, and Pushcart Prize anthology inclusions, and was listed as finalists for the 2021 and 2020 Firecracker Awards and the 2021 and 2024 ASME National Magazine Award for Fiction. She lives in Austin, Texas.