Biography

INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES "Welcome to Broadsided Press" by Jennifer Garfield in Prick of the Spindle, June 2008 Octavian Blaga's blog, February 6, 2008 MiPOesias Women of the Web, September 2007 Salka, July 2007 (English translation) Alaska Professional Communicators, December 2006

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008). She grew up in Tacoma, Washington, lived for a time on Cape Cod and in Alaska, and is currently perched in California, where she is a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

Elizabeth holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been published in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares and Orion.

Liz has taught creative writing at primary and secondary schools, universities, and in non-academic settings. In addition to leading a literary life, Liz works as a naturalist and web designer (www.pelagicdesign.com). Her work in both fields fuels her understanding and awareness of poetry as a means of interpreting the world: as a naturalist, she leads hikes and kayaking forays and gives lectures during week-long boat-based natural history trips in Southeast Alaska and Baja, California; as a web designer, she enjoys working with arts-related clients to bring their work to an online medium.

She is founder and editor of Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org).

Complete CV (pdf file).