Robert Petrillo

Robert Petrillo is a retired high school English teacher who must have absorbed his stylistic leanings from so many years of exposure, though his interest in dabbling with words has always been with him. He is currently on the editing team for Reflections, the OLLI arts and literature journal at the University of Southern Maine, where he has also facilitated a poetry workshop for the past three years. He’s been published in numerous literary journals, as well as in the anthology A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis. His first book, What Passes For a Life, a collection of poetry and essays, will be available in the summer of 2024 from SCE Press, as well as from Amazon and other book retailers. He lives in Westbrook, Maine.