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Winner of the Four Lakes Prize
in Poetry
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About

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about the author 

Bruce Snider is the author of four poetry collections, Blood Harmony (University of Wisconsin Press, Fall 2025), Fruit, (University of Wisconsin Press, Spring 2020); Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades Press, 2013); and The Year We Studied Women (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). He is co-editor of The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press, 2018). His poems and essays have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, Threepenny Review, UTNE, and ZYZZYVA, among others. His awards include a 2023 NEA fellowship, a James A. Michener Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington award, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, the Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry, the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry, as well residencies from Yaddo, the Millay Colony, the Amy Clampitt House, the James Merrill House, VCCA, and the Bogliasco Foundation. He lives in Baltimore and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Books

Blood Harmony

Fruit

The Poem's Country: 

Place & Poetic Practice

Paradise, Indiana

The Year We Studied

Women

My Books
Praise

Original and rhapsodic, rich in tender details, Bruce Snider's beautiful book is driven by acceptance: the rarest of spiritual truths.

SPENCER REECE,

author of The Road to Emmaus and The Clerk's Tale

Press
Events
EVENTS
  • November 15, 2026 6:00PM-7:00PM, Book Release Reading, Bird in Hand, 11 E. 33rd, Baltimore, MD 21218

  • November 18, 2026 3:00PM-4:00PM, Reading, CAPITOL LETTERS, George Washington University, George Washington University Museum, 701 N. 21st Street NW, Washington DC, 20052

  • November 24, 2026  7:00PM-8:00Pm, West Coast Book Realease Reading, Green Apple Books, , Desperate Literature, Calle Campomanes, 13, Madrid, M 28103 

  • January 11, 2026 Best American Poetry reading, HOT L Reading Series, Bird in Hand, 11 E. 33rd, Baltimore, MD 21218

  • February 12, 2026 Reading, Georgia State University, Troy Moore Library, 25 Park Place NE, 23rd Floor, Atlanta, GA. 

  • March 4, 2026 7:00PM-9:00PM, University of Wisconsin Press reading, AWP Conference, Baltimore Museum of Industry, 1415 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD 21230.

  • March 5, 2026 7:00PM-8:30PM, COPPER NICKEL reading, Diamondback Brewery,  1215 E. Fort Ave. Ste. 8, Baltimore, MD 21230 

  • March 6, 2026 1:00PM-2:00PM, Book Signing, University of Wisconsin Press Table, AWP Book Fair, AWP Conference, Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

  • March 6, 2026 2:30PM-3:00PM, Book Signing, University of Wisconsin Press Table, AWP Book Fair, AWP Conference, Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

  • May 16, 2026 7:00PM, Cork Arts Threatre, Cork International Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland 

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