Steven P. Klepeis (b. 11/12/50) grew up in upstate New York and holds an M.A.T. from SUNY, New Paltz, NY (1982.) After working many years in Risk Management in New York and Louisia...view moreSteven P. Klepeis (b. 11/12/50) grew up in upstate New York and holds an M.A.T. from SUNY, New Paltz, NY (1982.) After working many years in Risk Management in New York and Louisiana, he followed a job to New Mexico in 2016 where he currently resides. He started writing poetry seriously in the early 1970's and has published Brooklyn and After and Poems 1973-1987 (Fulton Books, 2021,) and Eighty-One Plus One (Lincoln Writes, 2022.) He wrote New Poems, his third book over 2021-22. His fourth book, El Rio, is as yet an unpublished collection of physical and spiritual adventures while fishing and exploring various rivers, creeks and streams in the Northern, Southern and Western U.S. He is currently working on a book length lyric narrative of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt and a new collection entitle simply Love.view less