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= Leah Maines = Leah Huete de Maines, better known as "Leah Maines", is an American poet, publisher, actor, editor and entrepreneur. She served as senior editor at Finishing Line Press from 2002-2017. Her first poetry collection Looking to the East with Western Eyes initiated the New Women's Voices Series, No. 1 in 1998 and was #10 on the Cincinnati/ Tri-State Best Sellers List (Cincinnati Enquirer). Her second full length collection Beyond the River (KWC Press, 2002) won the Kentucky Writers' Coalition Poetry Chapbook Competition. Maines edited hundreds of titles at Finishing Line Press, many of which won awards. She is Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University.

Life and Education
Leah Maines was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Covington, Kentucky. In 1988, she acted in the TV series TerrorVision.

She was a Mazak scholar as well as a Zalla scholar. She studied English literature at Kings College London and The Marino Institute in Dublin, Ireland. She studied Japanese language and culture at Gifu University, graduating in 1995. As a member of the class of 1996 at Northern Kentucky University, she was friends with George Clooney. She has a Masters of Divinity from Cincinnati Christian University. She studied publishing at Yale School of Management.

Her poetry can be found in Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment, Owen Wister Review, and Mediterranean Poetry among other notable publications. In 2022, World Inkers Magazine noted her contributions to literature in their top ten literary women of the year.

She identifies as mixed race Latinx/Creole/Sephardic Jewish. Combat Antisemitism Movement reported Maines was attacked on Facebook for her Jewish heritage after a post supporting Black Lives Matter in 2020.

She lives with her husband and children in the state of Kentucky.