Bruce Pratt is nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Award in fiction, and his poetry collection Boreal is available from Antrim House Books. His writing has appeared in over forty literary magazines and journals in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Wales. A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA at The University of Southern Maine, where he teaches undergraduate creative writing, Pratt lives with his wife, Janet, in Eddington Maine.