bruce E. Whitacre

Good Housekeeping is forthcoming in 2024 from Poets Wear Prada and is a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick. Bruce E. Whitacre’s debut collection, The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, was also a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick and Indy Spotlight. It placed 2nd in Contemporary Poetry at The BookFest Spring 2023 and was a Finalist in Narrative Poetry in the American BookFest Best Book Awards 2023. Publications include The American Journal of Poetry, World Literature Today, Life and Legends, The Mandarin, Nine Cloud Journal. Published in anthologies from Southern Arizona Press (Castles and Courtyards, 2023, and The Wonders of Winter, 2022) and Milk and Cake Press (I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, 2021). “Leave Meeting” was a sample poem in Diane Lockward’s craft book, The Strategic Poet, Terrapin Books, 2021. He has garnished nominations for Pushcart and Best of the Net. A Nebraska native, he lives with his husband in Queens, NY.

Prior to devoting full-time to writing, his management career included executive positions in public accounting, publishing, international economic development, banking, and theatre.