Bruce Whiteman, author of The Invisible World Is in Decline, is a Canadian poet and writer living in Los Angeles. He has degrees from Trent University and the University of Toronto, and has worked as a rare book librarian at both McMaster and McGill. He is currently the Head Librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children. Whiteman has published extensively as a poet, scholar, cultural historian and book reviewer. Recent books include Visible Stars: New and Selected Poems, as well as books on the painter J.E.H. MacDonald and on the history of publishing in Quebec.