Lanay Griessner is an emerging American short story writer with a PhD in biology that she doesn’t know what to do with yet. Lanay writes voice-driven, heartwarming fiction and sometimes delightful kitsch. Originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, Lanay moved to Austria in 2008 for graduate school and couldn’t figure out how to leave because the signs were all in German. She now lives in Neunkirchen, Austria with her husband and two children.