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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AVAILABLE FOR HIRE

I provide graphic design (book covers, advertisements, logos, marketing collateral, etc.), book publishing and consultation, and photography services.

Portfolio available upon request.

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  7. Good morning Bri, thank you for following my blog, I see you studied in California, One time home of one my favourite writers, Wallace Stegner, Am starting to read your work, Take care 🙂

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  39. Very glad to meet you. I have read some of your poetry and we are woven from like cloth. Thanks for looking at my blog. Happy to follow your work. I am actually getting ready to publish a book of poetry and would possibly be interested in your editorial services. Feel free to contact me via my website at:
    http://www.quickturtlebooks.com. Thanks, Richard

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  41. Thank you for stopping by and following my blog! I write reviews of books only now and then – only if a book has really caught my fancy that is! But I hope you enjoy reading my general posts too – on South Africa and travel!

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  45. Thank you for the visit and following! I am hoping by fall to complete a revision and be seeking a new editor. I’ve written a literary novel about a nurse who needs to learn to be to be human.

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  47. Gee whiz…Like everyone else said, wow. That’s quite a resume, so why follow me? I do appreciate it, and I hope ( pray 0 I can provide whatever it is you’re looking for. Thank you. I in turn follow my followers. Like stalking only legal! Great place you have here too.

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  49. Bri, thanks for perusing, and following, my little blog. Best of luck with your adventures in Arts & Letters.

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  50. You’re such a beautiful and amazing person Bri. We need more people like you in the world who’s paying it forward with motivation rather than money. Stay true, thank YOU! 🙂

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