Dr. Bruce Bond

Dr. Bruce Bond received a BA from Pomona College, an MA in English from Claremont Graduate School, an MA in Music Performance from Lamont School of Music, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver.

He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wesleyan Writers' conference, The Swanee Writers' Conference, The Yaddo Corporation, and the
MacDowell Colony.

His full-length collections of poetry include Independence Days (1990, winner of the R. Gross Award), The Anteroom of Paradise (1991, winner of the Colladay Award, QRL), Radiography (1997, BOA Editions, winner of the Natalie Ornish Award), The Throats of Narcissus (2001, University of Arkansas Press), Cinder (2003, Etruscan Press), and his latest collection of poetry, Blind Rain (LSU Press, 2008).