Bruce Bond, a finalist in Narrative’s Fourteenth and Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contests, is the author of numerous books, including Plurality and the Poetics of Self; Words Written Against the Walls of the City; The Calling; Patmos, winner of the Juniper Prize; Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner, 2022), winner of the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music; Choreomania; (MadHat, 2022); and Invention of the Wilderness (Louisiana State University, 2022). Bond is Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.