100 galleys will be mailed to key review and media outlets 3-4 months prior to publication Galleys will be available by request National Print Campaign: 100 advanced and finished copies will be mailed to key review and trade outlets such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus, The Believer, Bookforum, BOMB, The Nation, New York Times, New York Review of Books, LA Times, Washington Post, Time Out NY, among others Extensive promotion through BOA's website, blog, Facebook (6,000+ followers), Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, e-blasts, print and e-postcards, print materials, e-newsletter, and print catalogs Print ads in Poets & Writers magazine, American Poet magazine, Rain Taxi, and Gently Read Literature Fall announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media Author will promote via email (1,000+ contacts), Facebook (300+ followers), blog, and website (www.robertthomaspoems.com/)

WINNER OF THE 2015 PEN CENTER USA LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION Set in modern-day San Francisco, this obsessive fiction probes the stormy life of Alice, a passionate and whip-smart young woman who works at a law firm. Alice faces despair and occasional rapture as she struggles with simultaneously real and hallucinated relationships, including a tumultuous romance with her co-worker David, and an escalating war with her supervisor Fran. In lyrical prose, Bridge exposes a raw, brilliant, and furious mind as it treads the jagged terrain of mental illness, murder, and suicide--to be or not to be. Robert Thomas is the author of Door to Door (2002, Fordham University Press), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize, as well as Dragging the Lake (2006, Carnegie Mellon University Press). He has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and won a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife in Oakland, California, and works as a legal secretary in San Francisco.