Lena Moses-Schmitt is the author of the poetry collection True Mistakes (University of Arkansas Press, 2025). Her work has appeared in The Believer, Ecotone, Narrative, The Yale Review, the Slowdown podcast, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2025 MacDowell Fellowship, and her work has also received support from Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in New York.