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Leia K. Bradley
About the author
Leia K. Bradley (they/she) rides her broomstick between NYC and NC, dreaming often of bioluminescence and bats. A Southern lesbian writer, performance artist, and MFA Poetry graduate of Columbia University, they have taught Writing in Gender & Sexuality, Contemporary Essays, and—an ardent lover of the gothic and profane—have also taught Monster Studies and Poetics of Embodiment. She currently teaches hybrid-genre writing classes through her online school Lycanthrope Academy—upcoming courses include Sapphic Summer and a literature and film course on women in horror called Werewolves & Witches. She has work out now in POETRY, Variant, trampset, BOOTH, Southeast Review, Gasher Press, West Trade Review, Epiphany, and more, with her poem "Settle(d)" chosen as the Editor's Choice Best Overall pick for Penumbra Magazine's 2022 Pride issue. They were nominated by Miniskirt Magazine for a Pushcart Prize for their lesbian werewolf short story "Moon Pie," are the 2023 Featured Author of Anodyne Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2024 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry and Florida Review's Editor's Prize. After climbing out from the coffin of her first divorce, she is writing two novels at once and warring with the beast of love again. Oh, and put your best Sunday dress on for their debut poetry collection, Venus In Transit, out with Red Hen Press in Spring 2027.
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