Bruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections, Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press; Paradise, Indiana; The Year We Studied Women, and the co-editor of The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice. His poems and essays have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Iowa Review, New England Review, Poetry, and Threepenny Review, among others. His awards include a James A. Michener Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington award, as well residencies from Yaddo, the Millay Colony, the Amy Clampitt House, the James Merrill House, VCCA, and the Bogliasco Foundation.