Associate Teaching Professor Bruce Snider‘s forthcoming poetry collection, Blood Harmony, has been selected as the winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry by Wisconsin Poetry Series editors Sean Bishop and Jesse Lee Kercheval. Professor Snider previously won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, for his debut The Year We Studied Women. Read the full announcement from the University of Wisconsin Press here.

Bruce Snider is the author of Blood Harmony, selected by the editors as winner of the 2025 Four Lakes Prize in Poetry. His previous collections include Fruit;  Paradise, Indiana; and The Year We Studied Women. He is a coeditor of The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice. Snider’s poems and essays have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, POETRY, and Threepenny Review, among others. His awards include a 2023 NEA fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a James A. Michener Fellowship, the Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington award, and residencies from Yaddo, the Millay Colony, the Amy Clampitt House, the James Merrill House, VCCA, and the Bogliasco Foundation. He lives in Baltimore and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.