Bruce Isaacson earned degrees at Claremont McKenna, Dartmouth, and Brooklyn College, where he wrote a thesis for American poet Allen Ginsberg. In New York, he was a surprise finalist in the inaugural Nuyorican Poetry Slam. In San Francisco, he was a coordinator of the Cafe Babar reading, part of a famed SF Spoken Word resurgence. He was the first Poet Laureate of Clark, County, Nevada, a community of two million souls encompassing the City of Las Vegas and Las Vegas Strip. He is publisher of Zeitgeist Press, with over 100 poetry titles to date. He has lived in Michoacán, Mexico, NYC, LA, Berkeley-San Francisco, Leningrad, Russia, and Las Vegas, Nevada.