Bruce Crown grew up in Toronto's Corso Italia, around the famous St. Clair and Bathurst intersection where Italian and Portuguese cultures thrive. At North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and Nineteen Eighty-Four caught his interest, he began writing and volunteered in the school library to be near the smell of cedar shelves and paper. 

He wrote plays and short spec scripts while studying philosophy at the University of Toronto, and began his first novel after travelling through Europe and the United States. Chronic Passions, the first of his four novels, was published when he was twenty-three. He wrote his third, How Dim the Promised Land, while completing an MPhil at the University of Copenhagen; his fourth, The Romantic and The Vile, is set in Copenhagen and Monte-Carlo. His poetry and prose have appeared in Rappahannock Review, Subnivean, Penumbra, and Goat's Milk Magazine. He divides his time between Toronto and Copenhagen.

I acknowledge that where I grew up is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg (ah-nish-naw-bek), the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee (hoodt-en-oh-show-nee) and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis (may-tee) peoples. (en Français)