Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-seven books, including Invention of the Wilderness (Louisiana State University Press, 2023), Therapon (with Dan Beachy-Quick; Tupelo Press, 2023), Vault (Ashland Poetry Press, 2023), and Lunette (Green Linden Press, 2024). His honors include the Juniper Prize, Richard Snyder Award, Test Site Poetry Award, New Criterion Poetry Award, Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Crab Orchard Book Prize, Elixir Press Poetry Award, two Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry awards, fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Commission on the Arts, and seven appearances in The Best American Poetry. (updated 10/2025)