Author Talk: SOFAR & Scorched Earth

Poet/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s most recent book is SOFAR: Poems, which includes poems that were published in The Atlantic Monthly, The Sun, and Orion. She is also author of Interpretive Work, which won the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award.  She volunteers at the Center for Coastal Studies, works as a Dolphin Fleet naturalist, directs the Poetry Concentration for the low-residency MFA at Western Colorado University, teaches creative writing at Brandeis, and runs Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org). When asked about her multiple interests, she says, "I am an aspiring generalist." Forever queer, forever curious, you can learn more at www.ebradfield.com

Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collections Scorched Earth (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster, 2025) and I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), which won the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She also wrote the chapbook Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected…