Originally from Long Island, Bruce Hesselbach has lived in Newfane, Vermont, since 1989. He is the author of a steampunk novel, Perpetual Motion (Cogwheel Press 2013) and a hiking memoir, High Ledges, Green Mountains (Bondcliff Books 2005). An avid hiker, he has climbed 480 different mountains and has hiked Vermont's 270 mile Long Trail. To date 62 of his poems have been published in the small presses. As a member of the Londonderry Poets since 1991, he has contributed to their two anthologies: Blackberry Picking (1994) and Chancing the Weather (2001). He has also written seven published short stories and one scheduled to be published in the future.