Lawrence Bridges is best known for work in the film and literary world. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and the Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press, 2006), Flip Days (Red Hen Press, 2009), and Brownwood (Tupelo Press, 2016). As a filmmaker, he created a series of literary documentaries for the NEA Big Read initiative, which include profiles of Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick. His photographs have appeared in the Las Laguna Art Gallery, Humana Obscura, Wanderlust: A Travel Journal, the London Photo Festival, and have been displayed in the ENSO Art Gallery, Malibu, California.