Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished. He, his younger sister Margaret, and his two grown sons, James and Jesse, continue to work extensively in projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture, language and traditional Native skills, including performing traditional and contemporary Abenaki music with the Dawnland Singers.
He holds a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Syracuse and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Union Institute of Ohio. His work as a educator includes eight years of directing a college program for Skidmore College inside a maximum security prison. With his wife, Carol, he is the founder and Co-Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center and The Greenfield Review Press. He has edited a number of highly praised anthologies of contemporary poetry and fiction, including Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back, Breaking Silence (winner of an American Book Award) and Returning the Gift. His poems, articles and stories have appeared in over 500 publications, from American Poetry Review, Cricket and
Speculative Fiction Novels (12)
Arrow of Lightning (Killer of Enemies #3) 2017 | science fiction > dystopia, steampunk, young adult |
Trail of the Dead (Killer of Enemies #2) 2015 | science fiction > dystopia, steampunk, young adult |
Killer of Enemies (Killer of Enemies #1) 2013 | science fiction > dystopia, steampunk, young adult |
Wolf Mark 2011 | fantasy, young adult |
Dragon Castle 2011 | fantasy, young adult |
Night Wings 2009 | horror, young adult |
Bearwalker 2007 | horror, young adult |
The Return of Skeleton Man (Skeleton Man #2) 2006 | horror, young adult |
Wabi: A Hero's Tale 2006 | fantasy, young adult |
Whisper in the Dark 2005 | horror, young adult |
The Dark Pond 2004 | horror, young adult |
Skeleton Man (Skeleton Man #1) 2001 | horror, young adult |
Others non-spefi books (3)
The Waters Between (The Dawn Land #3) 1998 | paleofiction |
Long River (The Dawn Land #2) 1995 | paleofiction |
Dawn Land (The Dawn Land #1) 1995 | paleofiction |