Bruce Rettig

BRUCE RETTIG is the author of literary short stories, creative non-fiction, and essays, and also works as a travel writer/photographer. Rettig's narrative nonfiction/memoir, Refraction, won first place at the 2018 San Francisco Writing Contest Awards in nonfiction, first place at the 2017 Chanticleer Book Review Awards in narrative nonfiction, and first place at the 2017 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Awards in nonfiction/memoir. The piece is based on his years of working as a merchant marine in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the shipping hub for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Visit his blog, "Changing Tides," at BRUCERETTIG.COM.