Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles-based poet and educator. His newest collection Inheritance was just released by Lethe Press. After earning a degree in Creative Writing at the University of South Florida, he published his début poetry collection, Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat, in 2001. A two-time recipient of The Los Angeles County’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ Artist in Residency Grant, Reigns organized and taught the first-ever autobiography poetry workshop for GLBT seniors and edited an anthology of their writings, My Life is Poetry. He has taught writing workshop around the country to GLBT youth and people living with HIV and recently received his Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University.

Inheritance: Poetry (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011), Inheritance (Lethe Press, 2010)

Best Gay Poetry 2008 (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2009), Eyes of Desire II (Handtype Press, 2007)

Mirage, Riverbabble, Van Gogh's Ear, Velvet Mafia