Biography
Bruce Ducker has over 100 stories and poems in the nation’s leading literary magazines, including work has appeared in The New Republic; the Yale, Southern, Sewanee, Missouri, Shenandoah, Literary, and Hudson Reviews; the Quarterly; the New York Quarterly; Ascent; Commonweal; the PEN/America Journal; and Poetry Magazine. He is the prize-winning author of eight novels and a book of short fiction; and in 2024 the Kingston University (U.K.) Press published his first collection of poems, available only through Amazon. His work has won the Colorado Book Award (Lead Us not into Penn Station) and the Macallan Story Prize, and has been nominated or short-listed for the Thurber Award for American Humor (Dizzying Heights), the American Library Association Best Book Award (Penn Station) and the Pulitzer (Marital Assets). Ducker is also an instrument rated pilot and a jazz pianist. He divides his time between Denver and the Roaring Fork Valley.
