Bradford Tice earned his BA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; his MFA from the University of Colorado, Denver; and his PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of two collections of poetry: Rare Earth (2013), winner of the 2011 Many Voices Project and a Debut-litzer finalist in 2014, and What the Night Numbered (2015), which won a Trio Award. Concerned with queer experience, the history of gay liberation, and the poetics of the American South, Tice merges lyric and narrative forms as well as personal and public histories in his poetry.

Tice’s poetry and fiction appear in journals such as the Atlantic Monthly, Alaska Quarterly Review, and American Scholar, among others. A short story appeared in Best American Short Stories 2008, edited by Salman Rushdie. He is the winner of the 2009 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner and is an associate professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University.