About

Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, which was a finalist for 2024 Book of the Year at Southern Literary Review. His stories appear at BULL, Ghost Parachute, Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp, Superstition Review, and elsewhere, and they been nominated for Year’s Best Weird Fiction and featured on LeVar Burton Reads.

Additionally, he has written reviews, interviews, and essays for Chapter 16, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The Rumpus, and Southern Review of Books, where he also serves as the host of “The Southern Summer Book Club.” In 2019, he was selected to participate in Lit Hub’s “Secrets of the Book Critics.”

Bradley holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, where he was Fiction Editor of Qu.

He currently serves on the National Advisory Council for Sigma Kappa Delta, the English honor society for two-year colleges, and he is a previous board member of the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative.

Bradley is also an award-winning educator. He received recognition as Teacher of the Year on the high school and district level, and he also won the prestigious Chair of Excellence award. As a professor, he was the recipient of Calhoun Community College’s 2025 Teaching Excellence Award.

He currently teaches writing and literature at Calhoun, and he lives in Madison, Alabama, with his wife.

The Volcano Keeper, his debut novella, will be out from Regal House in the fall of 2026.