A playwright and poet from Brooklyn, Reines produces a unique brand of the spoken word. She is the author of three poetry collections, THE COW (Alberta Prize, FenceBooks: 2006), COEUR DE LION (Mal-O-Mar: 2007; FenceBooks: 2011), MERCURY (FenceBooks: 2011), and the play TELEPHONE, winner of two Obie awards. In 2009 she became the youngest ever Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at University of California Berkeley. Reines gave a reading on April 25 in B-Bar of new works written during her stay in the Writer's Room.