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Lisa M. Bradley grew up in South Texas, before the construction of the Border Wall. She writes about boundaries and those who defy them in works ranging from haiku to novels.

Her latest book is Climbing Lightly Through Forests, a tribute poetry anthology for Ursula K. Le Guin, coedited with R.B. Lemberg (Aqueduct Press). Her debut novel is Exile (Rosarium Publishing). Her first collection of short stories and poetry is The Haunted Girl (Aqueduct Press).

Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous venues, including Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Cicada, Weird Tales, Mothering, and The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry. She resides in Iowa with her spouse and teen. You can follow her on Twitte ...more

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	Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue by Wendy N. Wagner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Caitlín R. Kiernan (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine, Issue 15, March/April 2017 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.Y. Yang (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 653 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation by Phoebe Wagner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brontë Christopher Wieland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Dincher (Foreword) 3.64 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fungi by Orrin Grey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Camille Alexa (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 30 September/October 2019: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicolette Borischoff (Guest Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tía Abuela’s Face, Ten Ways by Lisa M. Bradley (Goodreads Author), LeVar Burton (Narrator) 3.54 avg rating — 112 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exile 3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Algorithmic Shapeshifting: Poems by Bogi Takács (Goodreads Author), Lisa M. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunted Girl 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exile [Dramatized Adaptation] 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Last time I checked, there wasn't a Goodreads entry for this chapbook: Bonehouse, Glitter Frogs, and Other Stuff by Keffy R.M. Kehrli. (I won't add it myself because it doesn't have an ISBN and I'm not sure what the policy is on that. Also, I am lazy.) But I did want to keep track of it for my year's reading.

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“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
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“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”
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“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
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“Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

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