A former newspaper reporter, Michelle Reiter lives in Montclair, New Jersey. She spent the last two summers volunteering at Fort Greene Summer Youth Program & Literary Festival in Brooklyn in its program for young writers. During her career, Reiter has won an Associated Press award for humor columns, Frederick Buechner Award for Excellence in Writing from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and honorable mention in Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2016. “Lloyd and Mary” is her first short story published by a national magazine.