Discipline: Literature – poetry

Bradley Trumpfheller

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Somerville, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Bradley Trumpfheller is the author of Reconstructions, a chapbook forthcoming in 2020 with Sibling Rivalry Press. Their work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, jubilat, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. Born in Japan and raised in Virginia and Alabama, they co-edit the website Divedapper.

While at MacDowell, they worked on a sequence of poems addressing trans people's relationship to the historical record, as well as a craft essay on speculative poetics.

Studios

Calderwood

Bradley Trumpfheller worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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