Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield is an American poet and naturalist. She is the author of several books, including Interpretive Work, winner of the Audre Lorde Award, and Approaching Ice. Her work has been nominated for the Lambda Literary Prize and the James Laughlin Award. In 2005, Bradfield founded a publishing house named Broadsided Press. In addition to her writing, she is active in wildlife conservation.
Personal life
Bradfield grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and now lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She is an associate professor in the Practice of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University. She has also taught online workshops for Orion magazine. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and was awarded a Stegner Fellowship by Stanford University.Work
Bradfield has written five books of poems, including Interpretive Work, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Approaching Ice, finalist for the James Laughlin Award, Once Removed, Toward Antarctica, and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Poetry, Orion, and other literary magazines and anthologies. She has collaborated with video artists to create short films for several of her poems, including To Find Stars in Another Language and Travel of the Light.In 2005, Bradfield founded Broadsided Press and serves as its Editor in Chief. Broadsided Press publishes literary-visual collaborations as posters that can be printed and shared freely, and those published include Mary Jo Bang, Jericho Brown, and Camille Dungy. She also serves as a Contributing Editor to The Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her work as a naturalist has included leading local wildlife workshops and whale watches and assisting with marine mammal field work—especially seals—in the Cape Cod region.