Bruce Cohen is the Director of The Counseling Program for Intercollegiate Athletes at the University of Connecticut. His poems have appeared in various literary publications including AGNI On-line, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, The Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Quarterly West. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, his book, Disloyal Yo-Yo, winner of the Orphic Poetry Prize, was recently published and a second book, Swerve, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.