Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond (he/him) is the author of more than 30 books, including Patmos (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021); Behemoth (Encounter Books, 2021); Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Press, 2022); Choreomania (MadHat Press, 2023); Invention of the Wilderness (LSU Press, 2023); Therapon, written with Dan Beachy-Quick (Tupelo Press, 2023); Vault (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2023); Lunette (Green Linden Press, 2024); and The Dove of the Morning News (University of Nevada Press, 2024). He is also the author of two books of criticism: Immanent Distance (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave Pivot, 2019).

His honors include the New Criterion Poetry Prize, the Crab Orchard Book Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the James Dickey Prize, the ALSCW Meringoff Award, two TIL Best Book of Poetry awards, fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry. He teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas, and he performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area.