Bruce Sparks is a professor of Art and Art History at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Sparks studied photography at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA 1977) and at the San Francisco Art Institute. He completed his BA (1972) and MA (1996) in English Literature at Carleton University in Ottawa. Sparks exhibited some of his early photography at the Centre for Art Tapes in 1977.