H. Bruce McEver has taken poetry workshops at Sarah Lawrence College with Thomas Lux and Kevin Pilkington and in New York City with Brooks Haxton, J. D. McClatchy, David Lehman, Hugh Seidman, Katha Pollitt, and Pearl London. He is also the president of Berkshire Capital Corporation, an investment banking firm in New York City. He and his wife live on a farm in Salisbury, Connecticut.