Nicholas Reiner is an American poet of Mexican heritage. His debut poetry chapbook Levitations is co-winner of the inaugural Alta California Chapbook Prize,  available in a bilingual edition from Gunpowder Press. His poems appear in Spillway, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Western Humanities Review, Zocalo Public Square, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Nicholas is also a sports writer, educator, and communications professional. His sports writing has appeared at ESPN.com, kenpom.com, Basketball Prospectus, and The Orange County Register. Formerly a lecturer in writing at UC Irvine, he has taught writing in high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, and juvenile halls. He is Director of Communications at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), where he lifts up the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated people and edits a quarterly newsletter that reaches tens of thousands of incarcerated people in California prisons.

Nicholas holds degrees in English from Stanford University and University of California, Irvine, where he completed an M.F.A. in poetry. He is a chess expert, a title conferred by the US Chess Federation. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.