Ryan Bani Tahmaseb is the director of library services at the Meadowbrook School in Weston, Massachusetts. His first book, The 21st-Century School Library, will be published by John Catt Educational in fall 2021. In addition to writing about education in magazines such as Education Week and Independent Teacher, he also writes short fiction and poetry, with work appearing in journals such as the Carolina Quarterly, Spartan, and Spry Literary. He lives in the Greater Boston area with his wife and two young children.