Bradley Bazzle is the author of the story collections In the Shadow of the Architect, forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press, and Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science. His novel, Trash Mountain, won the Red Hen Press Fiction Award, judged by Steve Almond. His short stories have won the Tim McGinnis Award for humor from the Iowa Review, the Jaimy Gordon Prize from Third Coast, and special mention in Pushcart Prize XLII. His story "Relatable Influence," first published in the Missouri Review, was reprinted in the anthology Strange Encounters. Other stories and essays can be found in the Gettysburg Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, New Letters, River Styx, Epoch, Fiction Daily, Copper Nickel, Beloit Fiction Journal, and Web Conjunctions, among others. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bradley left home to study at Yale, where he wrote obscure plays. He spent the next few years in New York City, writing and performing sketch comedy with Trophy Dad. He did graduate work in creative writing at Indiana University (MFA), where his thesis advisor was Tony Ardizzone, and at the University of Georgia (PhD), where he worked with Reg McKnight and Judith Ortiz Cofer. Bradley has taught writing at the University of Georgia, Indiana University, IU Lifelong Learning, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Today he teaches improvisation for Flying Squid Comedy in Athens, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
