Leia K. Bradley
Writing
Find all published works below. Works with an asterisk can also be found on the author's instagram, @MadameMort.
Venus In Transit out with Red Hen Press, coming June 2027!
Good Dirt (Lavoisier's Law), Epiphany Magazine, coming Spring 2026
“Youth And Other Illusions” Poetry Northwest, 2026 (print)*
“Latticework, Laboring” Southeast Review, April 2025*
"My Gender Is A Red Stiletto or Grocery Store Feet" POETRY Magazine*
“Things We Deny We Already Know” Cathexis Northwest Press, May 2025*
“Good Place to Be From, Or So They Say” Southern Humanities Review, June 2025 (print)*
“Devils in Headlights” DIAGRAM, 2025
“It Was Always Gonna Be Gasoline” GASHER, May 2025 (print)*
“Baby Blues” The Florida Review, spring 2025 (print) + Finalist for Editor’s Prize*
“Janet, You’ve Got To Stop Sending Me Letters” and “Abacus” Birdcoat Quarterly, July 2025
“Lucy-Ann and the Toads” Black Warrior Review, January 2025 (print)*
“Smack Dab” Talk Vomit, October 2024*
“Lynette of the Violets, My Heart and All Four Humours Are Yours” Full Mood Mag, May 2024
“I'm No Lady But I Am Still In The Lake,” “Dirty Fingernails” and “Rosemary To Bring A Good Thing Back” Salvation South, 2025*
“Enough is for Fools” The Shore Poetry, September 2024
“Picking Up Cicada Carcasses In Texas” Bicoastal Review, November 2024
“Grime, With Frills” 86 Logic, 2025
“Everyone Has Lint And Other Tiny Things That Stick To Them” BOOTH* + Featured in Read A Little Poetry 2025
“Front Porch Morning In Which Wind Chimes Portend Newborns” La Piccioletta Barca, 2025*
“Melancholy City in Which There Are Three Moons in the Sky” Tiny Molecules, 2024
“Magnolia at Henrietta” Watershed Review, 2024
“No One's Penelope” and “Dirty Deaths In A Gin-clean Year” Shearsman, 2024 (print)
“Ode To Weevils” Variant Literature, 2024
“Lucille, Watch Out For The Dadaists!” West Trade Review, 2024
“Yes We Know Lungs Look Like They Have Trees Inside Them,” Nimrod International Magazine (print)
“Moon Pie” Miniskirt Magazine, 2023 + Pushcart nominee*
“This Is Why You Can't Be Roommates With Your Ex” Full House Literary’s Game Room: Halloween, 2023
“Maura, I'll Trade You My Pseudonym For Your Anonymity” The Selkie, 2024
“Mama Ain't Most,” “Dear Sabina Spielrein, Did You Like Being So Known?,” and “June, Where Did You Put The Time?” Anodyne International Magazine of FLINTA* Health, 2023
+ Featured Author + Interview with Finnian Burnett
“Georgine, I've Got To Get A Grip” trampset, 2023
“IN A MOTEL OFF I-95, EACH TOOTH A BULLET” Ghost City Press, 2023
“Whored Out Heart at the Corner of BDFM & Broadway” Underscore Magazine, 2023
“Bad Dates to the Tune of the Jitterbug Waltz” and “Because the Refrigerator” Peach Fuzz Magazine, 2023 (print)*
“Like Luck, But Dirtier” Cutbow Quarterly, 2023*
“Baleine Blue” JMWW, 2023
“Carrageen” Wrongdoing Magazine, 2023 (print)
“Honeycrisp” Aurore, 2022*
“July, With Antlers” Moss Puppy, 2023*
“Green, With Tongue” Wild Greens, 2023
“Scythe, Swinging” and “Adding Up The Adders” All Existing, 2023
Freud Museum, London
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