About

Bradford Gray Telford was born in El Paso and raised in Dallas. His writing has recently appeared in Yale Review, Ninth Letter, Southwest Review, Bomb, Pleiades, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Columbia, Laurel Review, Lyric, and Bloom. For his work on the poetry of Geneviève Huttin Telford won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, and his translation of Huttin’s book The Story of My Voice will appear in Fall 2009 from Host Publications. Telford holds an AB from Princeton, an MFA from Columbia, and a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where he won the Verlaine Poetry Prize, two fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar, and the Stella Ehrhadt Memorial & Cullen Fellowship. He currently works in Houston’s Department of English, where he is a Houston Writing Fellow.