Bruce
Berger
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writer and poet Bruce Berger is best known for a series of
books exploring the intersections of nature and culture, usually
in desert settings. Those works include the essay collection
The Telling Distance, which won the 1990 Western States
Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and the 1991 Colorado Book
Award; There Was A River, whose title piece is a narrative
of what may have been the last trip on the Colorado River
through Glen Canyon before its inundation by Lake Powell;
and Almost an Island, which recounts three decades
of exploration and friendship in Baja California.
Two more books
of prose are set in Berger's adoptive hometown of Aspen, Colorado:
The Complete Half-Aspenite, an essay collection that
won the 2006 Colorado Authors´ League Award for Narrative
Nonfiction, and Music in the Mountains, a history of
the Aspen Music Festival. Texts integrated with photographs
include Oasis of Stone: Visions of Baja California Sur, winner of the 2006 ForeWord Silver Award in the Nature category, and its text won the 2006 Colorado Authors' League Award for Specialty Writing, and Sierra, Sea and Desert: El Vizcaíno.
His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times,
Sierra, Orion and numerous literary quarterlies, and for
three years he was a contributing editor at American Way,
the magazine of American Airlines. He
currently writes for the Baja California website:
www.planetapeninsula.org
Berger's
poems have appeared in Poetry, Barron's, Orion and
various literary reviews, and have been collected in Facing
the Music. He has won the 2005 Colorado Authors' League
Award for Poetry and been a featured poet in Light.
Bruce Berger grew up in suburban Chicago and graduated from
Yale University with a B. A. in English. During graduate work
at the University of California, Berkeley, wondering what
Crater Lake looked like in the snow, he chucked his books
down the library chute and left academia. He subsequently
played piano professionally for three years in Spain, and
more recently has played benefit classical recitals in Mexico.
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