Bruce Arlen Wasserman assembled his first poetry manuscript at the age of seventeen and later farmed and worked as a blacksmith. He received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been published in the Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology, the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Kindred Magazine and the Broad River Review. In 2016, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. At other times, he creates visual art as a potter and performs as a musician in a band.