K. Tempest Bradford

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About the IWOCSF

K. Tempest Bradford, also known as just Tempest, is an African-American speculative fiction writer born in Cincinnati, Ohio, currently residing in New York, NY. She attended New York University’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study where she had the opportunity to write and produce several plays and performance pieces in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway spaces.

Since 2000 she’s concentrated on fiction and in 2003 she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Prior to that was a member of the OWW (SF&F Online Writing Workshop) for many years. She's currently a member of the Altered Fluid and Black Beans writing groups and co-coordinates the Ohayo Mountain Retreat in New York State.

Bradford is the main writer behind the Angry Black Woman blog.

Works

• "Enmity" in Electric Velocipede issue 17/18, 2009.
• "Elan Vital" in Sybil's Garage No. 6, 2009.
• "Different Day" in Federations, 2009.
• "Until Forgiveness Comes" in Strange Horizons, 2008
• "Black Feather" in Interfictions, 2007.
• "The Seventh Reflection" in Thou Shalt Not... a horror and dark fantasy anthology, 2006.
• "Change of Life" in Farthing, 2006; PodCastle, 2009.
• "Hard Rain" in Farthing, 2006.
• "Why I Don't Drink Anymore" (as Finley Larkin) in Abyss & Apex, 2003.
• "Elf Aware" (as Finley Larkin) in Cafe Irreal, 2002; PodCastle, 2009.
• "What We Make Of It" in Peridot Books, 2000.

Editorial Positions

• Managing Editor, Fantasy Magazine, 2007 - 2009
• Assistant Editor, Sybil's Garage #5
• Editor, ForteanBureau.com, 2001 - 2006
• Associate Editor, PeridotBooks.com, 2000 - 2006

Affiliations

• The Carl Brandon Society
• The Interstitial Arts Foundation

Projects

• SFBookswap
• The Angry Black Woman

External Sources

• http://tempest.fluidartist.com/
• http://ktempest.livejournal.com/
• http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/