About

editor in cheifBRI 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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  9. Thank you for visiting and following my blog. Hope you can drop by again sometimes if I have more post to come. You’re doing a great work here. I wish you all the luck

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  14. Thank you for visiting my blog and the follow. I look forward to reading more of your work also. Take care.
    Peace

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    1. Thank you for stopping by! I encourage you to keep writing 🙂 If you’ve enjoyed the poems I’ve posted so far, I encourage you to read further. My book, “The Weight of Snow,” is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, OmniLit, and iTunes! It is coming soon to Google Play and Kobo.

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  30. Hello fellow blogger! Thank you for dropping by and introducing yourself 🙂 Congratulations on following your passions and sharing your beautiful words with the world. You are certainly a source of inspiration for many (including myself) and I am looking forward to spending some time in your little corner of paradise.

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    1. Can’t thank you enough for your kind words 🙂 I do appreciate it. If you’ve enjoyed the poems I’ve posted so far, I encourage you to read further. My book, “The Weight of Snow,” is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, OmniLit, and iTunes! It is coming soon to Google Play and Kobo.

      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-weight-of-snow-b-l-bruce/1118461000?ean=2940148189459
      https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-theweightofsnownewselectedpoems-1418553-244.html

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  32. Hello there Bri, really nice to meet you and glad you put down a follow on my own wee blog. Welcome aboard. If you have any suggestions or requests just let me know. Now if you’ll excuse me I would like to take a tour of your site. MM 🍀

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  35. It’s unbelievable to think that you’d follow someone like me 😮 You’re so amazing, you’re practically holding the degrees I want to accomplish!! :DD THanks so much for following my blog. Ugh, you’re so amazing ❤

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    1. Thanks so much for stopping by and for the kind words! 🙂 If you’ve enjoyed my posts so far, I encourage you to read further. My book, “The Weight of Snow,” is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, OmniLit, Google Play and iTunes!

      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-weight-of-snow-b-l-bruce/1118461000?ean=2940148189459
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  38. Thank you for following SWB Bri. I look forward to meeting you in the spaces between the words.

    The cover of your book is powerful. I look forward to reading your work.

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    1. Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂 If you’ve enjoyed my posts so far, I encourage you to read further. My book, “The Weight of Snow,” is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, OmniLit, Google Play and iTunes!

      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-weight-of-snow-b-l-bruce/1118461000?ean=2940148189459
      http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-weight-of-snow
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    1. Thank you so, so much! If you’ve enjoyed this poem and some of my other posts, I would encourage you to take a look at the entire collection, “The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems” available as a paperback from Amazon and at all major e-bookstores!

      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-weight-of-snow-b-l-bruce/1118461000?ean=2940148189459
      http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-weight-of-snow
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  46. I love the feel of words that bring colour to a conversation and I love when people of words find and start following my visual posts. Thank you for introducing me to your work, I particularly like Migration and want to read more.

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    1. Thank you so, so much! If you’ve enjoyed this poem and some of my other posts, I would encourage you to take a look at the entire collection, “The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems” available as a paperback from Amazon and at all major e-bookstores!

      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-weight-of-snow-b-l-bruce/1118461000?ean=2940148189459
      http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-weight-of-snow
      https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-theweightofsnownewselectedpoems-1418553-244.html

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    1. Thank you so, so much! If you’ve enjoyed this poem and some of my other posts, I would encourage you to take a look at the entire collection, “The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems” available as a paperback from Amazon and at all major e-bookstores!

      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-weight-of-snow-b-l-bruce/1118461000?ean=2940148189459
      http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-weight-of-snow
      https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-theweightofsnownewselectedpoems-1418553-244.html

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