Robert Klose teaches at the University of Maine at Augusta. He is a regular contributor of essays to The Christian Science Monitor. His work has also appeared in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Exquisite Corpse, Confrontation, and elsewhere. His books include Adopting Alyosha: Single Man Finds a Son in Russia, Small Worlds: Adopted Sons, Pet Piranhas, and Other Mortal Concerns, The Three-Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching, and a novel, Long Live Grover Cleveland, which won a 2016 Ben Franklin Literary Award and a USA Book News Award.