Bruce Smith

Bruce Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of seven books of poems including, The Other Lover, which was a finalist both for the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize. Devotions was a finalist for the National Book Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. In 2018 he published a new book of poems, Spill.