2025 WINNING POEMS (SPRING) AND BIOS
BY ROBIN MAYER STEIN
Robin Mayer Stein ‘s poetry and prose have appeared in The Paterson Review, the new renaissance, Persimmon Tree Review and 50 Give or Take. She presents programs about her book, “My Two Cities: A Story of Immigration and Inspiration,” at schools and libraries. She loves hydrangeas, crossword puzzles and swimming.
BY MARIA TOSTI
Maria Tosti is an Italian author from Perugia. Her literary debut was with a multilingual poetry book in 2014. She likes various forms of poetry but she's particularly interested in short poems, in Japanese style, and also likes creating visual poems thanks to her passion for Photography and Drawing. Many of her literary and artistic works have appeared in various national and international literary journals, magazines, blogs, websites and anthologies around the world.
BY JIM KROSSCHELL
Jim Krosschell has published poems and essays in some 85 journals, plus two essay collections: One Man's Maine, which won a Maine Literary Award, and Owls Head Revisited. He lives in Northport, Maine, and Newton, Mass., and volunteers on boards for Coastal Mountains Land Trust and Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.