Darby Minott Bradford is a Canadian poet based in Montreal, Quebec,""That Edge of Freedom" D.M. Bradford on The Ups and Downs of Poetry". Open Book, October 7, 2021. whose debut poetry collection Dream of No One But Myself was published in 2021."D.M. Bradford's Dream of No One But Myself explores family via words and images". CBC Books, June 6, 2022, updated May 10, 2023.
Biography
Bradford completed a BA at Concordia University followed by an MFA at the University of Guelph, where Bradford was mentored by Dionne Brand."Guelph MFA Grads Simone Dalton and D.M. Bradford on Family, Loss, Writing, and Community". Open Book, August 5, 2021. 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."House House Press launched their first three chapbooks!". Drawn & Quarterly, March 1, 2019.
Awards Dream of No One But Myself was shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize,Attila Berki, "[D. M.] Bradford, Liz Howard, and Tolu Oloruntoba shortlisted for 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize". Quill & Quire, April 13, 2022. the 2022 Gerald Lampert Award,Cassandra Drudi, "Shortlists announced for 2022 League of Canadian Poets book awards". Quill & Quire, April 21, 2022. and the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2022 Governor General's Awards."The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry". CBC Books, October 12, 2022.
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."Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 25, 2023.
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