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 writing appears at such venues as Chapter 16, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, LeVar Burton Reads, Lit Hub, 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.”
Bradley holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, where he was Fiction Editor of Qu. He also has an MA from the University of North Alabama.
He 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. As a former high school teacher, he received recognition as Teacher of the Year at the 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 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 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.
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Bradley at some of his recent stops at and around the US national parks:
