Bruce Bond is the author of twenty books including, most recently, Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way Books, 2017), and Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997–2015 (L. E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017). Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at University of North Texas.
