Biography

INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES 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 shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage and has received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and a work-study scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Her poetry has been published in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, The Believer and Orion. She has completed a second book of poems about Arctic and Antarctic exploration, titled Approaching Ice, that will be published in late 2009.

Elizabeth grew up in Tacoma, Washington and has since called Cape Cod and Alaska home. Currently, she is perched in California, where she is a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford University. She is founder and editor of Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org).

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. Her work in the field fuels her sense of poetry as a means of interpreting the world.