Bruce Cohen is director of the Counseling Program for Intercollegiate Athletes at the University of Connecticut. His poems have appeared in many literary periodicals, such as The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and previously in Ploughshares, as well as being featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, he has two collections of poems, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press, 2010) and Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press, 2009), which was awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize.