Nicholas Reiner is Senior Press Strategist at the ACLU of Southern California.
Nicholas joined the SoCal affiliate in 2023. From 2018 to 2023, he was Director of Communications at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), where he uplifted the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated people. In that role, he edited a quarterly newsletter that reached tens of thousands of incarcerated people in California prisons.
Formerly a lecturer in writing at UC Irvine, he has taught writing in high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, and juvenile halls.
Nicholas's 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. His sports writing has appeared at ESPN.com, kenpom.com, Basketball Prospectus, and The Orange County Register.
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.