Peter Stein is a poet and photographer whose poems have appeared in The Talking Stick, Martin Lake Journal, Nice Cage, The Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts Chapbook, and The Road By Heart: Poems of Fatherhood anthology. His first collection of poems AUTO-BIO was published in 2011 by Amber Skye Publishing. Peter is the president of the League of Minnesota Poets. He has performed as a part of many reading series around the Twin Cities and a frequent reader at the Poets & Pints open mic. His photography has appeared in the Saint Paul Almanac and won the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts Member show in 2018.  His debut gallery show was December of 2019 for the Err Arts show. He resides in Minneapolis by Lake Nokomis, where he takes frequent strolls to capture the cosmic landscape of winter.