BRI BRUCE (writing as B. L. Bruce) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in post-modern literature and creative writing from the University of California at Santa Cruz with post-graduate work with UC Berkeley’s professional editing program.
An award-winning author, photographer, publisher, and freelance graphic designer, Bruce’s work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, magazines, and literary publications, including The Sun Magazine, Tattoo Highway, Ampersand, Red Fez Entertainment, The Cossack, The Avocet Review, Atom Magazine, Northwind Magazine, The Soundings Review, and The Monterey Poetry Review, and is a widely published haikuist with work in the American Haiku Society’s Frogpond Journal, Modern Haiku, seashores, Akitsu Quarterly, folk ku, and many others.
Bruce was named Featured Poet of Homebound Publications’ holiday issue of The Wayfarer (Vol. 2, Issue 4, Dec. 2013) followed by the inclusion of seven of her poems in the Poems from Conflicted Hearts anthology alongside Poet Laureate Alice Shapiro. In addition to receiving the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, Bruce was also the recipient of PushPen Press’s Pendant Prize for Poetry for her haiku series published in THREE with Poet Laureate Erica Goss. In 2023, she was the winner of the Los Gatos Poetry Contest for her piece “Once Each Year,” awarded by town poet laureate Jen Siriganian.
A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and three-time award-winning author, Bruce’s debut collection, The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems, published February 2014 by Black Swift Press, earned her the nickname “the heiress of Mary Oliver.” Her second book, 28 Days of Solitude (Back Swift Press, August 2015) was written entirely during her four-week residency in the remote forests of Northern California. Also written during this stay, her chapbook, The Starling’s Song, published April 1st, 2016, was selected as the Honorable Mention of the 2017 Pacific Rim Book Festival in the poetry category. Measures, her third collection of poetry, was released in 2021. Blue California Sky, her fifth book, was published in 2024 with glowing reviews and is available from Finishing Line Press.
From 2016 to 2020, Bruce helped produce an award-winning nature adventure documentary film about Baja California called “The Devil’s Road.”
During the coronavirus shelter-in-place implications, she founded and is editor-in-chief of Humana Obscura, an online and print literary magazine publishing poetry, prose, and artwork with a nature theme.
She was featured on the cover of the June 2020 issue of Books & Buzz Magazine where she talks her shameless bibliophilia, her experience in book design, and her current projects: “How graphic designer Bri Bruce brings beauty to books” (Books & Buzz Magazine, June 2020)
Check out her feature at Shepherd, and her list of best contemporary nature poetry books: https://shepherd.com/best-books/contemporary-nature-poetry
See her recent interview with Brummet Media on her writing process, inspiration, and work: “World of Writing: Poet Interview”
Specializing in all things books and print and digital media, Bri’s professional work has given her the opportunity to work with authors, academics, non-profits, and small businesses, offering writing/editing, graphic design, publishing, and photography services.
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Thanks for stopping by and following my blog! I hope you enjoy my photos and posts. I am looking forward to exploring your site as well.
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Hi Bri, nice to meet you. I like your poetry 🙂
Thanks for visiting our blog, and for following. I hope you enjoy the stories of our journey, both inner and outer.
Cheers
Alison
And thank you as well! I look forward to your posts.
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Very pleased to meet you.
Thanks for following my blog. We recently returned to Oaxaca, so I am getting back into the swing of life here and working on new posts. I look forward to reading your writings also.
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Thanks for dropping by and reading my blog. I appreciate the follow.
I like what you have here. I’ll be back. 🙂
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Thanks for visiting my blog. Yours seems most interesting.
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Hello Bri,
Thank you for your recent visit to my site, I enjoy your poems and look forward to future post.
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Hi Bri, many thanks for the follow. I look forward to seeing more of your photography 😀
Thanks for dropping by my blog! I’m gonna take the time to go through your posts, I like what I see here. Cheers! Yael
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
many thanks for following my blog, I look forward to seeing more of your poetry
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Thank you so much for following my blog. I will definitely be taking a good look at yours as well.
I am very pleased that you decided to follow my little blog! I hope you will visit again soon and often. Namaste. . .
Bri, thanks for choosing to follow Wine and Cheese (Doodles). Looking forward to exploring more of your work through your blog. Thanks again.
Thanks for visiting and following our blog! We’re somewhat new to this, so it’s great to have you pop by! Looking forward to connecting with you.
Thank you for following my blog, Bri. Blogging is a great way to meet new friends, isn’t it?
Ha! Just listened to a CD on post-modernism this morning. Thoroughly confusing to me. One of those that calls for another listen.
Thank you for following my blog. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. May many blessings come your way.
What’s a “blessing?’
Good things, God’s grace, good Karma or positive energy, depending on your personal point of view.
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Thanks! Feel free to visit my site anytime! And keep me in mind for any future photography, editing/writing, or graphic design needs!
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
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Hi Bri,
Thanks for the follow. You’ve got an impressive resume and I’ll keep you on my radar when I get ready to edit one of my novels. Looking forward to exploring your blog and your work.
Chris
Thank you, please do!
Thanks for the follow. Love the pic of the flamingo. ‘Tis creepy. He looks like a villain. :3
Thx for subscribing! I will be back shortly to browse around!
Hi- Thank you for following my photography blog. I hope you are inspired. I am enjoying looking around your site- nice blog.
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
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Thank you for following my blog Princess of the Light and I look forward to reading more of your beautiful poetry! You are truly gifted! 🙂
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Thank you for discovering my photography blog http://www.throughharoldslens.com. You gave me the opportunity to discover, explore and follow your blog. Hope we both enjoy our journeys. On behalf of the Through Harold’s Lens Creative Team, my trusty sidekick Mr. SLR Nikon, his brother Mr. Pen Pal and myself, we wish you the best. Harold
Hi Bri, Thanks for finding my two blogs and following them both. SD
Thanks for following my blog. Hope you enjoy it. New recipe will be posted tomorrow. Check it out! Also, I really like you barn photo. Big fan of B&W photography.
Thanks for following. I’ll return the favor.
Wow! Congratulations on all your training and successes! It will be fun to keep an eye on what your creative enterprises. Best of “luck”…and blessings!
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Studied you blog further and discovered that you do e-covers. I will definitely remember this, since I’m working on 2 different books right now! 🙂
Great, please do! Would you mind if I kept your contact information? I’m constantly running specials and discounts and it would be great to add you to my mailing list.
Thanks for finding me, and thereby allowing me to find you!
–Barbara
Thank you for the follow! Hope that you will enjoy my posts! ^..^ B
Hey,thanks for following my blog,I will sure join yours.
Hey,thank you for following my blog,I will sure follow yours.
Hi Bri: Thank you for visiting and following Bookshelf. Great to meet another graphic designer/writer in the blogosphere. So great that you are combining all your passions: writing, design, and photography. Great way to make a living, isn’t it? Cheers, Alex.
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Thank-you for following my blog. Have a wonderful day. Renee 🙂
Thank you for following my blog. Very nice blog … Isadora
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Thanks for becoming a subscriber. Happy blogging.
Thank you so much for the follow 🙂 I just looked around your blog and it was incredible!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed poking around.
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
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Hi, I like your blog :D. Thanks for following me!
Thank you for following Chronicles of the Claus 🙂
Thank you for the follow =)
Thanks for being adventuresome and visiting my blog! You have my attention and I’m looking forward to joining yours!
If you’ve enjoyed my posts, I encourage you to check out my book, ‘The Weight of Snow,’ now available on Amazon!
Hi Bri. Thanks for liking my book review at prelovedbooksblog.com. I’m interested to see that you’re also a freelance copywriter and editor. I do much the same work here in Ireland (www.spellcheck.ie) so I hope business is going well for you. Delighted to come across your site and note your versatility – essential in the freelance world!
Very cool! Freelance always keeps things interesting and I do love the versatility. It’s great to connect with like-minded creatives. Best of luck to you!