Alabama Authors Directory

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Bradley Sides

Hometown: Florence, Alabama Lives in: Huntsville, AL

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  • Email: bradleynsides@gmail.com

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About Bradley Sides

Genres: Fiction

Available for: Readings, In Person

Bio: Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood. 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 …Read More 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 served as Fiction Editor of Qu. He is a previous board member of the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative.
Currently, he lives in Huntsville, Alabama, with his wife. On most days, he can be found teaching writing at Calhoun Community College.

Works:

Those Fantastic Lives, October 2021 (City of Light Publishing)
Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, February 2024 (Montag Press)

Awards:

“Best Southern Books of October 2021” at Southern Review of Books
Book You Should “Read This Halloween” at Electric Literature
Year’s Best Weird Fiction (Nominee)

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