Irina Reyn is a Russian-born American novelist and associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Her novel, What Happened to Anna K., was selected as the tenth best fiction book of 2008 by Jennifer Reese of Entertainment Weekly,[1] and won the 2009 Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by emerging writers.
Born in Moscow, Russia in 1974, Reyn emigrated with her family when she was seven years old.
[2][3] The author of short stories early in her creative career, Reyn's first essay was published in 1999.
In 2007, she edited Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State.