BIO: A queer Latina originally from South Texas, Lisa M. Bradley now lives in Iowa. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous venues, including Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Anathema, and Fireside Fiction. Her first collection is The Haunted Girl (Aqueduct Press); her debut novel is Exile (Rosarium Publishing). She served as Poetry Editor for Uncanny’s special issue “Disabled People Destroy Fantasy,” and she is the coeditor, with R.B. Lemberg, of Climbing Lightly Through Forests, a tribute poetry anthology for Ursula Le Guin (Aqueduct, January 2021).

INTERESTS:
My debut novel, Exile, is a "5 minutes into the future" dystopia about a hypersexual antiheroine scheming to escape her quarantined hometown. I'd love to talk to you about women as VILLAINS: what it means for a woman to be considered a villain, the differences between villains, nemeses, and antiheroes, why men get to be antiheroes so much more often than women, etc.

As a poet and poetry editor, I'd enjoy talking about SPECULATIVE POETRY: trends, evolutions, marginalized poets, writers' block, and generally "Poetry. How do?"

I love MOVIES, especially HORROR movies. I'm really interested in how we portray artists, neuroatypical folks, and "crazy" people in books and in movies.