Bio
Bradley David Waters is a queer, California-based visual artist and writer of poetics, beyond-genre, and creative nonfiction. His writing and image-work appears in DIAGRAM, Terrain.org, Denver Quarterly, Exacting Clam and numerous other publications and anthologies. He is also the beyond-genre and hybrids senior editor at JMWW Journal. Bradley and his husband steward land for wildlife habitat, grow heirloom fruit, and adopt unwanted poultry.
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Selected Published & Forthcoming Works
Three entries, Thick Press, 2027 (forthcoming nonfiction)
Two mixed media pieces, Phoebe Journal, 2026 (forthcoming art)
Outstanding, Anacapa Review, 2026, poetry
Adhesives, DIAGRAM, 2026 (poetry)
Just In Time For Politics, DIAGRAM, 2026 (micro dada)
Crafting the “Other”: On Hybrid & Beyond-Genre, JMWW, 2025 (craft essay)
Two Days in the Life of a Lead Balloon, Pamenar Press, 2025 (poetry)
Standard Modern Inventory, Pamenar Press, 2025 (poetry)
Shellmakers, Exacting Clam, 2025 (micro dada)
Advice is Insomnia, Nine Mile Magazine, 2025 (poetry)
Queer Pursuits, Boudin, 2025 (poetry)
Mood 48 is a Gay One, Boudin, 2025 (poetry)
Lights the Moon, Boudin, 2025 (poetry)
Closure, Gooseberry Pie, 2025 (micro)
Goodbye, Lemon-Feathered Fascinator, Bluestem, 2025 (creative nonfiction)
arma-fuma, Action, Spectacle, 2025 (poetry)
Bore Report Part Fore, Exacting Clam, No. 17, 2025 (poetry)
Return to Dogwood, Cowboy Jamboree, 2025 anthology, (blended-genre)
Brunch, Santa Monica Blvd, Sept 28, 2024, 72°, antiphony journal, in “Place”, 2025 (poetry)
3 Poems, Terrain.org, 2025 (poetry plus audio)
Firewatchers: Backyard to a Burning Los Angeles, jmww journal, 2025 (essay)
Take A Lung Or Take A Lover, Denver Quarterly, v. 59.1, 2025 (poetry)
Enfant Terrible, Exacting Clam, 2025 (prose poetry)
Population Wise, Exacting Clam, 2025 (prose poetry)
Red Tape, Exacting Clam, 2025 (prose poetry)
Wise Owl, Exacting Clam, 2025 (prose poetry)
A Way of Saving, The Milk House, 2025 (essay)
510 Road, HAD, 2024 (poem)
Taking It, Minor Literature[s], 2024 (essay/photo excerpt)
Quiver, Gooseberry Pie, 2024 (micro)
The Good Worrier, Gooseberry Pie, 2024 (micro)
Putting Too Much Into Titles, miniMAG, 2024 (beyond-genre)
small talk, miniMAG, 2024 (poetry)
Paradise Paranoid, miniMAG, 2024 (poetry)
Let Them Have It, Landlocked Magazine, 2024, (creative nonfiction)
Trunk Tools and Pocket Pastilles, Landlocked Magazine, 2024 (creative nonfiction)
No Quarters-ette Review, 2024 (prose poem)
Seasons Change, If You Let Them, Gooseberry Pie, Issue 12, May 2024, (micro)
Mid-Century Modern, hex, 2024 (flash)
Sources Say, Los Angeles Review, 2024, (flash)
Photograph, Exacting Clam, Spring 2024, (photography)
3 Poems, Unlikely Stories Mark V, 2024 (poetry)
Aroma Therapy, the evermore review #2, 2024, (fiction)
Plenty, Excuse Me Mag #8, 2023, (photography, back cover)
Tracing Letters, JMWW, 2023 (poetry)
Scenes from a Grief Casino, Thirty West, 2023 (creative nonfiction)
Accumulations, JAKE, 2023 (fiction)
6 Poems, Exacting Clam, 2023 (poetry)
Some People Take The Edge Off, Identity Theory, 2023 (poetry) (Winner, 2022 2022-Word Poetry contest)
3 fictions, Always Crashing, 2023 (fiction/beyond-genre)
Some People Have Tell-All Shelves, Opt West, Issue Two, 2023
Dead City Driver, Simple Machines, No. 2: Epochal Shift, 2022
Girl With A Pearl Herring, Exacting Clam, 2022 (fiction)
Five Ways To Learn Fear, Terrain.org, 2022 (fiction)
Queerness, Madness, and Trauma: The Morphology of Narrative Through Lived Experience, Allium, 2022 (craft essay)
Approachable Pedestrian, Bureau of Complaint, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Norman Rockwell Steps On A Lego, Fatal Flaw, 2022 (beyond-genre) (Pushcart nominated)
Artists on Artists, Fatal Flaw, 2022 (interview)
Some People Are Always Accounting For Taste, Fruit Journal, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Some People Catch Cold, Unstamatic, 2022, (poetry)
Some People Gotta Get Outta Here, Unstamatic, 2022 (poetry, Best of the Net nominated)
Some People Watch The Drinking Bird Go Dry, Anti-Heroin Chic, 2022 (poetry)
Some People Search For A Door, Rougarou, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Some People Feel Unsettled By Spaces They Can’t Fill, Scrawl Place, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Some People On December 28, Scrawl Place, 2022 (Poetry)
Some People Are Casualties Of Season Songs, the museum of americana, 2022 (beyond-genre)
Some People Go Home To Their Family, Zoetic Press, “Heathentide Orphans” anthology, 2022 (poetry)
So Much Depends Upon A Rental Car Place (After William Carlos Williams), Mid-Level Management, 2022 (poetry/beyond-genre)
Just Another Night On Fire, Milk & Cake Press, 2022 (poetry, anthology)
photography (2), Olney Magazine’s Magical Midwest: an anthology, 2022 (photography)
photography, Welter, 2022 (photography)
photography, Welter, 2022 (photography)
Preparing For Our Past, Plainsongs, 2021 (poetry)
Noodles, Porridge, 2021 (poetry)
Letter Carrier, Stone of Madness, 2021 (poetry)
Tides of Isolation, Epoch Press, 2021 (nonfiction/blended-genre)
My Allies Underground, Seisma, 2020 (poetry)
Should I Go Back Out There?, Dispatches From The Poetry Wars/Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2020 (poetry, anthology)
As Senior Editor, jmww journal, “Blended & Beyond”
Volume 1 (Erin Murphy, Jacqueline Doyle, Mark Foss, Mikki Aronoff)
Volume 2 (Sara Lynn Poutinen, J.Y. Tan)
Volume 3 (Afton Montgomery, Leia Bradley, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Helen Chen)
Volume 4 (Julianna Rappaport, Sarah Starr Murphy, N.L. Jorgensen, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Mary Catherine La Mar, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch, Ann Pedone, David John Baer McNicholas)
Volume 5 (Diane Wald, Benjamin Niespodziany, Mercedes Lawry, M.M. Kaufmann, Maria Said)
Volume 6 (Gayle Brandeis, Ann Gelder, Matthew Bala)
Volume 7 (Karissa Ho, Burgi Zenhaeusern, Emily Brisse)
Volume 8 (Chloe Hooks, Daniel J. Flosi, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer)
Special Edition #1 (AMPYDOO/Alan Michael Parker)