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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    1. Thank you for stopping by! 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!

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    1. Thank you! 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. 🙂 Many thanks your way! I’m glad you stopped by. 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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  9. Hello Bri!

    I look forward to following and really diving into your blog. Also, thank you for following my blog at Faith1st Ministries. I hope it has and will continue to be a major blessing in your life. May God richly bless you as you continue to write and blog. Please continue with us on this journey and remember to have Faith 1st because the “just shall live by his faith.” — Sebastian

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  14. Thanks for the follow ….going into depths of a more seasoned blogger like you to see where I can improve on my creative thoughts….:)

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  16. Thank you for following my blog and book: Thoughts on Prayer a Journey in the Land of Father’s Love. Honored. May you have much success on your newest book.
    Blessings, Debbie

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  18. Hello there Bri. I just wanted to drop by and thank you for following my blog. I also wanted to wish you the best of luck in your future writing.

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  20. Hello, my name is Gregory. I just wanted to thank you for following my blog at cascadialegends.wordpress.com. If my work interests you, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email. I also make youtube videos under the name “MrReaperofDead”, at https://www.youtube.com/user/MrReaperofDead
    Be sure to let as many people know about me as you can!
    Thank you,
    -Gregory
    P.S.
    I’m also looking for work as well! 🙂

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  26. Hello newest Spikey! I know, a bit corny, eh, but that’s the term that has come to stick for those folk who are part of the clan known to be followers of Uncle Spike 🙂

    Thank you… I really appreciate that as I for one, know how many interesting and entertaining blogs are out there.

    My aim is to deliver an eclectic offering of posts, from my ‘point n shoot’ attempts at basic photography, to the sharing of my travel adventures over the decades, as well as day to day happenings here on the farm. Oh, plus a few observations on life as I see it, thrown in for good measure.

    My promise to you is not to be overbearing, just a couple of posts a day, maybe 3 at weekends if I have something special to share. But if you are at a loose end one day, maybe you’ll enjoy trawling through some of my older stuff too. I have added plenty of categories to help in said digging process.

    Thanks again and hope you have a great day…

    UNCLE SPIKE

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    1. Hi Debb! Great to hear from you as well. I’m glad I tracked you down 🙂 Though I’m no longer with Book Hub, I have branched out on my own as a freelance writer, editor and graphic design (and now a published author). I hope you are well and the new (isn) year is going great for you so far!

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      1. Congratulations on your book! As you can see, my new magazine got off the ground in January, then lately I have combined the blog and mag so it’s just one vehicle now. I love being a writer! 🙂

  30. Thank you for following my blog. I haven’t had a chance to explore too much of your work, but I have been struck by the simplicity and beauty of what I have read (please don’t take the word “simplicity” pejoratively). I look forward to reading more of your work in the future.

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  36. Hi Bri, thank you very much for the follow. Just want to say that I’ve enjoyed the few poems I’d read here and loved the winter photos (I have a weakness for bleakness…). I’ll be back to see and read more of your work.

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  39. Hi Bri, I have been exploring your site and it looks like you have had an interesting career so far and I feel that perhaps we have some similarities. 🙂 Best of luck with your book. Congratulations on being published.

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  40. Thanks for stopping by my blog! Congratulations on your recently published book… looks wonderful! So glad I stopped by in return.

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  41. Thanks for the follow! I like the poems on your site. I think I should start writing more poems about Guatemala. This place feels like something right out of a fantasy sometime!

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