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Bruce Coggin

Bruce Coggin has been bewitched by words since he was a small child. With the passing years, his love affair increased in both serious and frivolous modes. He genuinely enjoys playing "hopscotch" with language as a way of encouraging writers to buff up their verbal power and grace.

Born in Cajun Country, but a lifelong Texan, he earned a BA and an MA in French Literature and a PhD in English and American literature, the first and last from UT Austin, the second from Columbia University. He particularly enjoys seventeenth-century French and nineteenth-century English works. Favorite American writers include Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and O'Connor but he also enjoys writers such as Cormac McCarthy for their use of regional speech.

Bruce has studied Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Russian and uses this knowledge to suggest shades of tone and structure to illuminate everyday English text. He has edited a vast array of genres, from literary fiction to adventure/thriller novels and autobiographies. He has also translated works from Spanish to English and polished them for the American literary market. He was Director of the Foreign Language Center of the University of Monterrey in Mexico. He also served as co-editor of the Rio Bravo Journal published by the University of Monterrey and the University of Texas Pan American. He now lives in Texas where he enjoys his family and cats and reading the many books he has purchased over the years.