Bruce b wilmer biography of albert

Bruce B. Wilmer is a native Long Islander, raised in Manhasset, NY, who in 1976 decided to pursue his improbable dream of turning his avocation of writing poetry into a livelihood by forming his own publishing company with his wife, Sydney, a former teacher.  Residing and working in Huntington, NY, until 2003, when the two of them relocated their company to North Carolina, he has continued to pursue his writer’s dream and broadened his creative perspective living in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Starting out with a pair of obsolete Chandler-Price letter presses, which he and his wife bought at auction in 1976, the two published Bruce’s poem about their newborn baby and sold it in hospitals and gift shops in personalized form.  That initial poem has grown to more than 350 titles in their line, most of which we