Bruce Overby is a fiction writer with particular interest in issues of loss and belonging, family and relationships, the human condition in a technology-driven world, and addiction.
His debut, The Cyclone Release, is a literary novel featuring a tragic accident, a grieving spouse, and a tangle of secrets, all set in a skyrocketing startup company during the late-1990s Silicon Valley tech boom. The book, published by Madville Publishing in 2022, was a finalist in the Blue Moon Novel Competition and is available now in paperback, ebook, and audiobook from all major online booksellers. Bruce discusses the book at length on the Coffee Conversation with Heena and All Things Writing podcasts.
Bruce’s fiction has also appeared in Storyglossia, the Green Mountains Review, the Evening Street Review, the anthology Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform, and on the Story Discovery Podcast. “Bookmarks,” the story of a brother’s struggle with alcoholism, his love of poetry, and the sometimes disturbing mix of the two, won first prize in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition in 2007.
Bruce has also written extensively online on politics, society, and the craft of writing, as well as a steady stream of book reviews.
Bruce holds a BA in Journalism from San Diego State University, an MA in Technology from San Jose State University, and an MFA in Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. His 1996 master’s thesis at San Jose State was one of the earliest studies of computer-based social networking, and was required reading for several years in Harvard University Computer Science courses.
Bruce is a native of San Jose and the fourth in a family of nine children. He now lives in Livermore with his wife Caroline.
Book
ISBN: 978-1-956440-08-9 (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-956440-09-6 (Ebook)
ASIN: B0BPDMWWGZ (Audiobook)
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