Irina was born in Moscow, and currently divides her time between Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Irina Reyn’s new novel The Imperial Wife will be published by Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press in the summer of 2016.

Irina’s first novel What Happened to Anna K. was published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in August 2008. That novel was selected as an IndieBound Next Pick for August. It was also one of “Ten Best Books of the Year” by Entertainment Weekly, one of Amazon.com’s Best books of August 2008, and made both San Francisco Chronicle‘s and Washington Post‘s “Best Books of the Year List.” It won of the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction from the Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Her anthology Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State (Touchstone, 2007) contains incredible essays on New Jersey just as the television show The Sopranos was transforming the state’s reputation. Authors include Jonathan Ames, Dani Shapiro, Lauren Grodstein, Frederick Reiken, Caroline Leavitt, and many others.