About

Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, and the upcoming novella, The Volcano Keeper, which will be out from Regal House in the fall of 2026. His fiction appears at BULL, Ghost Parachute, Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. His stories have 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. 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 Board for Sigma Kappa Delta, the English honor society for two-year colleges, and he is a previous board member of the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative.

He lives in Madison, Alabama, with his wife. On most days, he can be found teaching writing and literature at Calhoun Community College.