Bradford Morrow

Bradford Morrow is author of nine novels and a novella, as well as a collection of stories and an anthology on the subject of death, co-edited with David Shields. Morrow has received numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit, an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He also founded and edits Bard College’s acclaimed literary journal, Conjunctions, publishing the work of over a thousand fiction writers, poets, essayists, and dramatists in print and online, for which he received the 2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award. He has edited a number of books, among them The New Gothic (with Patrick McGrath); The Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth; World Outside the Window: Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth; Classics Revisited; More Classics Revisited; and The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (with Sam Hamill). Morrow has also published several volumes of poetry, including Posthumes and A Bestiary, which was illustrated by eighteen contemporary artists including Richard Tuttle, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith, and Joel Shapiro. He has also published as a children’s book, Didn’t Didn’t Do It, in collaboration with the legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson. Morrow is a professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College. He divides his time between New York City and an old farmhouse in upstate New York.