July Update: Two new anthologies with work by Bradfield: Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska and New Poets of the American West. Also, an online interview from Seattle's NPR station.

Approaching Ice

Approaching Ice
Persea Books, 2010
Finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets

"the biographical and experiential poems prove white-knuckle reading, for such is the intensity with which Bradfield conjures the strong characters of the explorers and the sensations of traveling and living in extreme cold"
—from Ray Olson's review in Booklist

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Interpretive Work

Interpretive Work
Arktoi Books, 2008
Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize and finalist for a Lambda Literary Award

"In her marvelous debut collection, Elizabeth Bradfield probes the work of daily life, locating her speakers in family, intimate relationship, neighborhood, wilderness, and workplace. ... an important new voice among us."
— Robin Becker, The Women's Reivew of Books

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Projects

Editing, collaboration, and finding new ways to share poems is part and parcel. Hence, Broadsided Press
(www.broadsidedpress.org).

Check it out! Poets & Writers featured Broadsided in its May/June 2010 issue: "Open Air Publishing" by Alex Dimitrov.

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Bio

Elizabeth Bradfield grew up in Tacoma, Washington. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and lives on Cape Cod. She works as a naturalist.

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