When Tom Bradley was a little boy he was given a gazetteer for Christmas. As little boys will, he looked up all the places in the world that start with the F-word. There were two, Fukien in China and Fukuoka in Japan. Little did he suspect that he would one day be exiled to both.

Tom taught British and American literature to Chinese graduate students in the years leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre. He was politely invited to leave China after burning a batch of student essays about the democracy movement rather than surrendering them to "the leaders."

He wound up teaching conversational skills to freshman dentistry majors in the Japanese "imperial university" where they used to vivisect our bomber pilots and serve their livers raw at festive banquets. But his writing somehow sustains him.

Tom's prose shares the legendary pages of London's Ambit Magazine with J.G. Ballard and Ralph Steadman. His Fission Among the Fanatics (Spuyten Duyvil Press, NYC) was named Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2007 by 3:AM Magazine. Various of his novels have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award and the New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in the AWP Award Series in the Novel. Reviews and excerpts, a couple hours of recorded readings, plus links to Tom's essays in Salon.com and other such high-tone swanky magazines, are at tombradley.org.

His latest books are Vital Fluid (Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink), Put It Down in a Book (The Drill Press), and Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch (Dog Horn Publishing). He is presently collaborating on a graphic novel in verse with artist David Aronson, to be published by Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink, and a nonfiction flip-book with Deb Hoag for Unlikely Books.

What Others Say

"Tom Bradley is one of the most criminally underrated authors on the planet."
        —Andrew Gallix, 3:am Magazine

"It takes a twisted sense of humor to appreciate this lunatic scholar, degenerate Harold Bloom, and biblical madman."
        —John-Ivan Palmer, nthposition Magazine

"Tom Bradley is one of the most exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know. I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste for something so strange that it might well be genius."
        —Denis Dutton, Arts and Letters Daily