Gary Stein lives in Maryland where he and his wife raised two sons. His full-length collection, Touring The Shadow Factory (Black Road Poetry Press, July 2019) won first prize in the publishers’ national contest. His chapbooks, Between Worlds and Getting To Heaven (Finishing Line Press) have been highly praised. Other poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, JAMA, Penn Review, Commonweal, America and The Atlanta Review. Stein co-edited Cabin Fever, a poetry anthology (The Word Works, 2004), served as Book Review Editor for Poet Lore, holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, and taught Creative Writing in colleges and high schools. He can be found at www.garysteinpoetry.net
