About

Bruce Frankel is a poet and writer based in Sharon, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Great River Review, Big City Lit, and other journals. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.

He is the author of What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life? (Nautilus and Axiom Business Book Awards) and LIFE: World War II—History’s Greatest Conflict in Pictures, and the editor of When I Was Young I Loved School: Dropping Out and Hanging In.

For three decades he worked as a journalist and editor at People and USA Today, and other newspapers. He is currently working on Mouth to Mouth, a sequence of poems shaped by cardiac arrest and resuscitation, and by watching the ephemeral waters of a New England vernal pool.