Mike Bove’s fifth poetry collection, Mineralia, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point in 2027. He is the author of four previous poetry collections.

His work has appeared in journals including Rattle, Chestnut Review, Tar River Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Rust & Moth, and the anthologies Wait: Poems From The Pandemic and Writing The Land. In 2021, he was winner of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest and a finalist for a Maine Literary Award in 2023 and 2025. In 2024, he served as writer-in-residence at Acadia National Park. He is Editor of Hole in the Head Review, a biannual poetry journal.

Mike holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire and is Professor of English at Southern Maine Community College. He was a founding Board Member of the Foundation for Portland Public Schools, and currently serves as a Board Member of Creative Portland, as well as Board President of The Mockingbird Foundation, a national music education non-profit managed and run by fans of the rock band Phish. He also plays guitar in The ProfTones, a Portland-based cover band made up of college professors.

Mike lives with his family in Portland, Maine where he was born and raised.