Debra Bruce

Debra Bruce is the author of three books of poetry, most recently What Wind Will Do (Miami, 1997). Her poems have appeared in such journals as American Poetry Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Georgia Review, North American Review, and Poetry. She has received grants in writing from the NEA and NEH and is professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.

Published in VQR

• Late Winter Lesson, Winter 2007
• So What, Winter 2004
• His Own Space, Winter 2004
• Countdown, Autumn 2000
• Cancer Suspect, Autumn 2000
• Blessed and Brooding, Autumn 1989
• My Father Refuses to Read the Obituaries, Winter 1988
• Young Wife Waiting for the Results of Her Husband’s Biopsy, Winter 1988