Nina Dabek has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her short films Seth's Aunts and Searching for the Contact screened internationally and on PBS and her short story GRE appeared in the Milo Review. A staged reading of her full-length play Invitation to the Dance, in collaboration with the Northampton Play Incubation Collective, is forthcoming. She lives in Amherst, MA with her partner. They have two daughters.