About Polly Bruno

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Polly Bruno was born and raised on Chicago's South Side. She earned a BA at Northwestern, where she received the Edwin L. Shuman Writing Award, and an MFA as a Regents Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, where she later taught writing. Her first novel, WESTERN MOTEL, was published by Macmillan/Scribner's Atheneum under the name Polly Gross, and her nonfiction has appeared in the LA Herald-Examiner. After a stint in corporate management leading events and communications, she returned to writing fiction. Recently, she has published stories in two regional anthologies and completed two noir crime novels set in Chicago.

Polly has lived in six states and on four coasts. For now, she resides on the Gulf Coast of Florida.