Elizabeth Bradfield

Elizabeth Bradfield’s seven books include Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books, 2008), which won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry; Toward Antarctica (Boreal Books, 2019); and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry (Mountaineers Books, 2023), winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award and a 2023 Foreword INDIES Gold Medal for Nature. Editor-in-Chief of Broadsided and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Liz teaches at Brandeis University and works as a naturalist and field assistant on Cape Cod. This poem is part of her forthcoming book, SOFAR (Persea Books, August 2025).