Bruce Bond is the author of 37 books including, most recently, Patmos (UMass, 2021), Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner, 2022), Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023), Therapon (with Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo, 2023),Vault (Ashland, 2023), Lunette (Green Linden, 2024), and The Dove of the Morning News (U of NV, 2024), plus two books of criticism, Immanent Distance (UMI, 2015) and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019). His honors include the Juniper Prize, Richard Snyder Award, Test Site Poetry Award, New Criterion Poetry Award, Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Crab Orchard Book Prize, Wishing Jewel Editor's Award, Elixir Press Poetry Award, Tampa Review Book Prize, Lynda Hull Award,  James Dickey Prize, Laurence Lieberman Prize, Verse Daily Book Prize, two TIL Best Book of Poetry awards, fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry.  Presently he teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.