Steven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle of a Bear, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. His book will be published by Anhinga Press in January of 2021. His work has appeared in Copper Nickel, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Oversound, and others. He teaches poetry at the University of the Arts, and he is the faculty coordinator of the Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop.