Kira Weiner is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Writing at Columbia, where she received her MFA in Fiction Writing. She has taught with Columbia’s Pre-College Program, the School at Columbia, Columbia Community Classes, and the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Prior to teaching, she worked in book publishing, most recently as the Event Manager for Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press. She also writes music and plays guitar in a few bands in Brooklyn, where she lives.