D. M. Bradford

Darby Minott Bradford is a Canadian poet based in Montreal, Quebec,[1] whose debut poetry collection Dream of No One But Myself was published in 2021.[2]

Biography

Bradford completed a BA at Concordia University followed by an MFA at the University of Guelph, where Bradford was mentored by Dionne Brand.[3] Bradford previously published the chapbooks Nell Zink is Damn Free (2017) and The Plot (2018) and was a founding editor of the poetry publisher House House Press.[4]

Awards

Dream of No One But Myself was shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize,[5] the 2022 Gerald Lampert Award,[6] and the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.[7]

At the 2023 Governor General's Awards, Bradford was nominated for French to English translation for House Within a House, the English translation of Nicholas Dawson's Désormais, ma demeure.[8]

References


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