Elizabeth Bradfield

Biography

Writer/Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s work-both on the page and off-centers interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and connection. She is the author of six collections of poetry, “SOFAR,” “Toward Antarctica,” “Once Removed,” “Approaching Ice,” and “Interpretive Work.” Poems from these books have been published in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere, and the books have garnered awards such as the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry, finalist from the James Laughlin award from the Academy of American Poets and a Lambda Literary Award. Liz’s collaborative work includes the book “Theorem,” which she created with visual artist Antonia Contro; the book was published both as a trade edition and a fine art edition of thirty copies, which are held now in collections such as the New York Public Library, Stanford University, the Art Institute of Chicago; “Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry” co-created with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield which integrates literature, art, science, and other traditional ways of knowing; and Broadsided (www.broadisdedpress.org), an innovative international journal she founded in 2005 that publishes twice-yearly folios of collaborations between writers and visual artists. Liz has received fellowships and scholarships from Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner Program, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale, and the TS Eliot House. For two decades, Liz worked as an expedition guide on small ships around the globe, and she still leads seasonal whale watches on boats out of Provincetown, on Cape Cod. Her volunteer work as a biology field assistant is central to her creative life. More at www.ebradfield.com

Courses Taught

• CRWR 630: Foundations of Poetry