Nicholas Reiner was selected for the Alta California Chapbook prize for his book Levitations. He is an American poet of Mexican heritage. His work appears in Spillway, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Fourteen Hills, Yemassee, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. He holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine, where he completed an MFA. He is Senior Press Strategist at the ACLU of Southern California, where he works to protect the liberty of all people. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two daughters.