Leo Love Merit Scholarship in Prose Winner, Kim Bradley

Kim Bradley grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. She received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Auburn University, and an MFA in fiction from the University of New Orleans. Her short fiction has appeared in Kalliope, The Southern Indiana Review, and The Louisville Review. An excerpt of her novel-in-progress, Mercury’s Net, was a semifinalist in the 2011 Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Wisdom competition. She’s taught poetry to at-risk middle-school children, and edited a collection of their poems called, Juice up the True Say. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida, where she teaches composition and creative writing at Flagler College.