Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-three books including, most recently, Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Press, 2018), which won an Elixir Press Poetry Award; Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018); Frankenstein’s Children (Lost Horse Press, 2018); and Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997–2015 (Louisiana State University Press, 2017), which won the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award. He is the Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas.  

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