George Bradley

George Bradley is a poet, fiction writer, and translator who has published with Yale University Press, Knopf, LSU Press, NYRB Press, HarperCollins and elsewhere. His verse has appeared in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Paris Review, and he has received numerous awards, including the Yale Younger Poets Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has worked variously in construction, as a sommelier, as a copywriter, and as a literary editor. At present he imports and distributes an Italian olive oil produced on a farm near Florence. When not on the farm, he can often be found in Chester, near the river of rivers in Connecticut.