Bruce Bond is a classical and jazz guitarist and professor of English at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and a poetry editor of the American Literary Review. He is the author of a number of collections of poetry, including The Anteroom of Paradise, Radiography, winner of the Natalie Ornish Best Book of Poetry Award from BOA Editions, The Throats of Narcissus, Cinder, Blind Rain, Peal, The Visible, Sacrum, and Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997¿2015.