Bruce Berger

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

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Aspen, CO
Colorado US
Website: 
www.bruceberger.net

Author's Bio

In October, 2008, I was sent by the Department of State to represent the United States at a literary conference in northern India, followed by readings in New Delhi and Mumbai

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Books:
Music in the Mountains (Johnson Books, 2001)
,
There Was A River (University of Arizona Press, 1994)

Poetry

Books:
Almost an Island (University of Arizona Press, 1998)
,
Facing the Music (Confluence Press, 1995)
,
The Telling Distance (Anchor/Doubleday, 1991)
Journals:
Negative Capability
,
New Letters
,
Orion
,
Poetry
,
Poetry Northwest
,
Sierra
Prizes won: 

Western States Book Award, 1990
Colorado Book Award, 1991
Colorado Authors' League Award, 2005,2006,2007
Solas Grand Prize silver, 2008

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Courtier and the Heretic by Matthew Stewart, The BlankSlate by Steven Pinker, Complete Poems by C. P. Cavafy, How Fiction Works by James Wood, The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
Spanish
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Last update: Jun 14, 2011