

His work as a educator includes eight years of directing a college program for Skidmore College inside a maximum security prison. in Comparative Literature from the Union Institute of Ohio.

in Literature and Creative Writing from Syracuse and a Ph.D. He, his younger sister Margaret, and his two grown sons, James and Jesse, continue to work extensively in projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture, language and traditional Native skills, including performing traditional and contemporary Abenaki music with the Dawnland Singers. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him.
