Born in Opelika, Alabama, in 1951, ELOISE BRUCE has worked in all aspects of the theater and is a teaching artist for New Jersey Writer's Project and a middle school and high school for the arts. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Blue Moon Review and The Paterson Literary Review as well as other journals and magazines. She is a recipient of a Fellowship in poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and helps administrate The Frost Place Festival of Poetry in Franconia, New Hampshire, each summer. Bruce lives with her husband, poet David Keller, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.