Biography

INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES Radio Interview on KUOW, Seattle's NPR Station Radio Interview on Woman-Stirred Radio (WGDR) Hear Bradfield read and discuss poems on From the Fishouse Video of Bradfield at 2009 Asheville Wordfest (runs on loop through several readers) Video of Multi-Use Area for Asheville, NC's "The Read on WNC". Plum Island Television piece, March, 2009 The Moe Green Poetry Hour hosted by Rafael Alvarado (radio interview) "Welcome to Broadsided Press" by Jennifer Garfield in Prick of the Spindle, June 2008 MiPOesias Women of the Web, September 2007

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008), which won the Audre Lorde Award and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and Approaching Ice (Persea Books, 2010), a book of poems about Arctic and Antarctic exploration that was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Bradfield's poetry has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, The Believer, Orion, and numerous other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships from Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and elsewhere.

In 2005, Bradfield founded Broadsided (broadsidedpress.org), which she still runs. A grassroots, virtual, collaborative press, Broadsided attempts to pull literary work out of journals and put it on the streets. It brings words together with the energy of original visual art, publishing monthly collaborations on the website as pdfs that are then downloaded, printed, and posted around the world by "Vectors."

Elizabeth grew up in Tacoma, Washington. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Washington and received an MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where she lived for five years. She lives now on Cape Cod and works as a web designer and naturalist.

Press Kit:

• Author Photo from Approaching Ice (Photo Credit: Ken Knowles) (1 mb jpeg file)
• Cover of Approaching Ice (4.9 mb pdf file)
• Author interview for Approaching Ice (180 kb pdf file)
• Author Photo from Interpretive Work (Photo Credit: Lisa Sette) (1.1 mb jpeg file)
• Cover of Interpretive Work (1 mb jpeg file)
• Information and author interview for Interpretive Work (780 kb pdf file)