Email: lizbradfield@gmail.com
Link: ebradfield.com
www.broadsidedpress.org
As a poet, my work focuses on how we as humans interact with the natural world around us. My first collection, "Interpretive Work," contains poems about my work as a naturalist and about the interpretation of a queer body in a straight world. My second collection, "Approaching Ice," delves into the history of polar exploration, examining the lives of various polar explorers and the landscape of the high latitudes. As a publisher, I'm interested in putting literary/visual collaborations out into unusual and unexpected daily places. My press, www.broadsidedpress.org, relies upon grass-roots distribution to post collaborative works in public places.
EDUCATION
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 2005
• Environmental Education Coursework: Marine Environments, Learning in Science, Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA, 1998
• BA in English Literature and Women’s Studies with honors, Summa Cum Laude, University of
Washington, Seattle, 1994
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
POETRY (full-length collections):
• Approaching Ice, forthcoming from Persea Books, 2009
awards: co-finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets
• Interpretive Work, Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008
awards: Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, Lambda Literary Award finalist
reviewed in: The Constant Critic (Spring, 2009), Octopus (Issue 11, Spring 2009),
Diagram (Fall/Winter 2008), Black Warrior Review (Fall 2008), Lambda Literary
Report (Spring/Summer 2008), San Francisco Chronicle (June 8, 2008),
Poemeleon (Summer, 2008), Women’s Review of Books (March/April 2008),
Harriet, the Poetry Foundation Blog (February 2008), Bookslut (February 2008)
AWARDS/HONORS
2009 Pushcart Prize Nomination
2007 Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
National Science Foundation Antarctic Artist’s Residency (declined)
2004 Pushcart Prize Nomination
2001 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Scholarship
2000 Vermont Studio Center Residency Scholarship
1996 Louisville Review poetry prize
1990 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize finalist
SELECTED PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, READINGS
2009 • Asheville Wordfest: Asheville, North Carolina; Reading with Gary Copeland
Lilley and Quincy Troupe; Panel on Poetry as Citizen’s Journalism
• ASLE Conference Panel, “Rara Avis: Poetry with Birds in It.” Co-panelists:
Renata Golden, Julie Chisholm
• AWP Conference Panel, “Poetry as Citizen’s Journalism.” Co-panelists: Laura
Hope-Gill, Sebastian Matthews, Matt O’Donnell, Curtis Bauer
• Poetry-in-the-Round Reading Series; Seton Hall University, New Jersey
• Sarabande Reading Series; Louisville, Kentucky; with Sean Hill
2008 • ALOUD Reading Series; Los Angeles Public Library; with Terry Wolverton,
Sarah Bein, Charles Hood, and Ron Koertge
• AWP Conference Panel, “Lasting Impressions: Developing an Imprint Within
Established Presses.” Co-panelists: Peggy Shumaker, Eloise Klein Healy,
Eva Saulitis, Kate Gale, Hilda Raz
• LA Times Festival of Books, reading with Eloise Klein Healy
• LitQuake, Koret Reading Series, San Francisco Public Library
• Poetrio Series; Asheville, North Carolina; with Oni Buchanan and Helen Pruitt
Wallace
• Rhapsodomancy Reading Series; Los Angeles, California; with Eloise Klein
Healy, Michelle Bitting, and Wendy Ortiz
• Runstad Lecturer; University of Idaho; Moscow, Idaho
• Wells College, Aurora, New York, reading and classroom visits
• Word Temple Reading Series; Santa Rosa, California; with August Kleinzhaler
2004 • Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric paper presentation:
“Vicious, Vicarious Arcadia: Representations of Shackleton’s Endurance
Voyage”
EDITORIAL/DESIGN EXPERIENCE
• Broadsided Press: Founder and editor, www.broadsidedpress.org, 2005-present
• Pelagic Design: Designer/owner, www.pelagicdesign.com, 1997-present
• Stanford Storytelling Project (radio): Stanford University, poetry editor, 2007-2009
• Mantis: A Journal of Poetry and Translation: Stanford University, reviews editor, 2007-2009
• Alaska Quarterly Review: University of Alaska Anchorage, intern and reading series coordinator, 2004-2006
• Ice-Floe: International Poetry of the Far North: Anchorage, Alaska; web editor; 2003-2007
• Understory (literary journal): University of Alaska Anchorage, editor, 2002-2004
• Fine Arts Work Center: Provincetown, MA; webmaster and graphic designer; 1998-2002