Bruce Bond


Bruce Bond is an American poet and creative writing educator at the University of North Texas.

Formal education & academic career

Bond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pomona College, a Master of Arts degree in English from Claremont Graduate School, and a Masters in Music Performance degree from the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver. He then worked several years as a classical and jazz guitarist. In 1987, he earned a PhD in English from the University of Denver. Since then, he has taught at the University of Kansas, Wichita State University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of North Texas, where he currently is a Regents Professor of English and Poetry Editor, with Corey Marks, of American Literary Review.

Works

Poetry

Criticism

Bond's poetry has been published by The Best American Poetry, The Yale Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Georgia Review, Raritan, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and other journals and anthologies.

Honors

Bond has received numerous honors, including the 2009 Kesterson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, University of North Texas. He is a past fellow of the NEA, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Wesleyan Writers' Conference, Wesleyan University, Sewanee Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Foundation, the Yaddo Corporation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and other organizations.