Bruce Ducker was born in New York City. He has practiced corporate law for most of his career and is the founding partner of a Denver law firm. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in such journals as The Yale Review, Poetry, Commonwealth, and the Literary Review.

He has authored several; the most recent, Bloodlines, was described by The Denver Post as a “a captivating tale” and by Kirkus Reviews as “providing a rising spiral of thrills.” He received the Colorado Book Award for Lead Us Not Into Penn Station and was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize for Marital Assets.