Eve FortiEve Forti, born in Boston, now lives on the coast of Maine with her husband, Tom. She taught elementary and high school and was a hospital chaplain, a campus minister, and a member of Spiritual Directors International for twenty years. Forti was on te Maine team that competed at the National Slam Poetry Finals in Asheville, North Carolina in 1994. Her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Off the Coast, and Common Ground Review among other publications. She received six International Awards from Atlanta Review between 2007 and 2015. Her poem "Beautiful" won first prize in the 2013 Common Ground Review poetry contest. Her poem "At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art" was selected to be in the 2016 anthology, Take Heart, More Poems From Maine. It first appeared in her chapbook, Holding My Breath, published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. Read More Read Less