Nina Boutsikaris is the author of the book I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych, winner of the 2021 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Third Coast, Hobart, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere, and were listed among the Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2019 and Best American Essays 2016. Her short memoir “Surrender” was anthologized in the book, The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction. Other awards and honors include The Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop Peter Taylor Fellowship, Redivider’s Beacon Street Prize for Nonfiction, and Writer-in-Resident at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at The University of Arizona (where she earned her MFA), Eugene Lang College, Catapult, and Gotham Writers Workshop. She recently earned an MLS in archival studies and she lives in the Hudson Valley where she works as an archivist and hosts a Works in Progress Salon. She is currently writing her second book.