Bruce Snider is
the author of The Year We
Studied Women, selected by Kelly Cherry for the Felix Pollak Prize
in poetry from the University of Wisconsin Press. His work has appeared
in the American Poetry
Review, Ploughshares, PN Review, Ninth Letter and Prairie
Schooner. He has been a James A. Michener fellow in poetry and
playwriting at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers as
well as a Wallace Stegner fellow and Jones Lecturer in Poetry at
Stanford University. He currently lives and teaches in San Francisco.During his time in Stonington, he will be working on his second
collection, currently called, “Paradise, Indiana.” It contains
meditations on subjects as varied as an abandoned small town gay bar, a
taxidermy convention, the largest bat colony in the Midwest, as well as
a series of personal narratives.
