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]
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]
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]
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