Bruce Hesselbach is an attorney who lives in Newfane, Vermont. His first novel, Perpetual Motion, published by Cogwheel Press in 2013, is a steampunk novel set in Switzerland and Germany from 1876 to 1889, a love story between a time traveler's daughter and a doomed inventor threatening to help Germany win the Great War.
Previously Bruce wrote High Ledges, Green Mountains (Bondcliff Books, 2005), a memoir about hiking Vermont's 270-mile Long Trail. An avid hiker, he has climbed over 490 different mountains to date. He is the author of seven published short stories. To date, 62 of his poems have been published in the small presses. His poetry group, the Londonderry Poets, have published two anthologies, Blackberry Picking (1995) and Chancing the Weather (2000).
As chairman of the Newfane Conservation Commission, he helped create hiking trails in the Newfane Town Forest. He graduated cum laude from Yale in 1972 with a BA in English, and received a JD in 1975 from Villanova Law School. His favorite reading matter includes Travel and Exploration, history, the Musket and Pike Era, fantasy and steampunk.
Connect with Bruce at
Writing website: https://www.hesselbachwriter.com
Hiking website: https://dickenshiking.bravehost.com
Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/brucehesselbach
Mark Roman