Mike Bove’s novella, A Catalog of Imaginary Houses, is forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in May of 2027. His fifth poetry collection is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point in late 2027.

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. He is a previous winner of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest and a three-time finalist for a Maine Literary Award. 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.