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. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…