Bruce Craven is an Academic Director at Columbia Business School, where he has leadership and teaching roles in executive education programs. He also teaches the MBA and EMBA management division elective: Leadership through Fiction.
His non-fiction book Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones, was republished by Codhill Press in 2023. The book was first published by St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) in March 2019. His most recent novel, set in NYC in the Nineties – Sweet Ride – was published by Codhill Press in 2021. He published a collection of poetry, Buena Suerte in Red Glitter, in 2019 with Red Dirt Press in Oklahoma. He adapted his first novel, Fast Sofa, to film. The movie starred Jennifer Tilly, Jake Busey and Crispin Glover. Bruce’s writing has been translated into Turkish, Serbian, Russian, German and Japanese.
Bruce received his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He has two BA degrees in Politics (with Honors) and English from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
He lives with his wife and son in the Coachella Valley in California.
