I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych was the winner of the 2021 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Nina Boutsikaris’ essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Third Coast, Hobart, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere, and were listed among the Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2019 and Best American Essays 2016. Her short memoir “Surrender” was anthologized in the book The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction. Other awards and honors include The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Peter Taylor Fellowship, Redivider’s Beacon Street Prize for Nonfiction, and Writer-in-Resident at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at The University of Arizona, Eugene Lang College, Catapult, and Gotham Writers Workshop. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley and is at work on a novel.