Lena Moses-Schmitt is a writer and artist. She is the author of the poety collection True Mistakes (University of Arkansas Press, 2025) which was selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. Her poems, essays, and visual essays appear in Best New Poets, Ninth Letter, The Believer, Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Narrative, Cincinnati Review, The Yale Review, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. She lives in New York, where she works as the assistant director of publicity at Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press.

She is represented by Mina Hamedi at Janklow & Nesbit.

Contact: lenamschmitt [at] gmail dot com