Bruce Smith is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Devotions (2011).  The Other Lover (1999) was a finalist for the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and Silver and Information(1985) won the National Poetry Series.  Smith has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Arts.  He currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Syracuse University.