Bruce Ducker (born 1938) is a prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Born in Brooklyn, NY.^[1] Ducker was educated at Dartmouth^[2] and Columbia.^[3] He has written eight novels and a volume of short stories. His poetry and short fiction appear in such journals as The New Republic,^[4] The Yale Review,^[5] Poetry,^[6] Commonweal,^[7] The Southern Review ^[8] and The Hudson Review.^[9] Recent stories have appeared in The Missouri Review,^[10] The Sewanee Review,^[11] Shenandoah,^[12] the American Literary Review ^[13] and Ascent.^[14] His most recent books are his eighth novel, Dizzying Heights from Fulcrum, which was nominated for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor; and The Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions, with illustrations by Western artist Duke Beardsley from Stackpole Books, which was runner-up for the Colorado Book Award.

His novel Lead Us Not Into Penn Station has won the Colorado Book Award,^[15] and was runner-up for the American Library Association Best Book Award.^[16] His work has won praise including that of novelists James Salter^[17] and Warwick Downing, and humorist Dave Barry.^[18]