Bruce Ducker has published eight novels, most recently Dizzying Heights; and a collection of fly fishing stories, The Home Pool. The first was runner-up for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, the second for the Colorado Book Award. His work has won the Colorado Book Award and the Macallan Story Prize; and has been nominated for the American Library Association Best Book Award and the Pulitzer. His stories and poems have appeared such journals as The New Republic, Poetry Magazine and the Yale, Southern, Sewanee, Missouri, Literary and Hudson Reviews.