Lori Rottenberg is a writer who lives in Arlington, Virginia. She has shared her poetry and flash non-fiction in many journals, anthologies, and even podcasts, most recently in the Mid-Atlantic Review, december, Pleiades, and Viewless Wings. She received Honorable Mention in the 2024 Passager Poetry Contest, one of her poems was picked for the 2021 Arlington Moving Words competition and appeared on county buses, and she served as a visiting poet in Arlington Public Schools for over a decade. She holds an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University, where she teaches writing to international students and poetry to Honors College students.