Biography
George Bradley (born 1953) is an American poet, editor and fiction writer, whose work is known for its formal structure, humour and satirical narrative. He was raised on Long Island and studied at Yale University and the University of Virginia.
His second collection, Terms to Be Met (1986), was chosen by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. It was followed by Of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (1991), The Fire Fetched Down (1996), Some Assembly Required (2001), A Few of Her Secrets (2011) and A Stroll in the Rain: New and Selected Poems (2021). In 1998 he edited The Yale Younger Poets Anthology.
His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic and The Partisan Review, among others. His awards include the Academy of American Poets' Peter I. B. Lavan Award and the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.