Bruce Harris was born in Kent in 1949, but brought up in the North-East after his family moved there in 1954.

He trained as a teacher in Nottingham, and has had a career in secondary school teaching and educational research, obtaining professional and honours graduate qualifications in the former and a master's degree in the latter.

He has completed a number of academic and commissioned educational research projects and his work has been extensively published and featured in the national and educational press. He is now retired and living in Devon.

He resumed writing in 2000 after a break of some twenty years, A number of his poems have been published in various magazines.