George Bradley

George Bradley is the author of poetry and fiction, as well as a critic and translator. He has published eight books with Yale University Press, Knopf, The Waywiser Press (U.K.), and the Louisiana State University Press. Bradley graduated Yale University in 1975, attended The University of Virginia as the Balch Fellow in 1977 and 1978, and won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1985. Bradley has worked in construction, as a sommelier, an editor, and as a copywriter. In addition to the Yale Younger Poets Prize, Bradley’s honors include the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.

CARPET DIEM: Tales from the World of Oriental Rugs (HarperCollins, 2025)