Bruce Snider

Bruce Snider is an American poet originally from rural Indiana, who is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he taught at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, George Washington University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Connecticut College. His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Utne Reader, Zyzzyva, and Best American Poetry 2012 . With the poet Shara Lessley, Snider co-edited The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press), an anthology of essays.

Awards Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington, George Washington University Robert Frost Fellow, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, Pleaides Press Amy Clampitt House Residency James Merrill House Residency Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press James A. Michener Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin