Robert Eugene Rubino is a retired newspaper copy editor and sports columnist who received a Pushcart Prize creative nonfiction nomination in 2016 for "Spinning Shame Into Nostalgia" (Hippocampus). He was 70 in 2018 when his first published poem appeared, "Septuagenarian Atheist Prays" (The Esthetic Apostle). Since then he has published poetry and prose in various print and online literary journals. He is the author of two other collections, "Aficionado" (Humming Word Press) and "Douglas KOs Tyson" (UnCollected Press).