Tom Bradley taught British and American literature to Chinese graduate
students in the years leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre. He was
politely invited to leave China after burning a batch of student essays about the
democracy movement rather than surrendering them to "the leaders." He wound
up teaching conversational skills to freshman dentistry majors in the Japanese "imperial
university" where they used to vivisect our bomber pilots and serve their livers raw at
festive banquets. But his writing somehow sustains him.

Various of Tom's novels have been nominated for The Editor's Book Award and
The New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in The AWP Award
Series in the Novel.

Reviews, excerpts, links to his online publications, plus a couple hours of
recorded readings, are at http://tombradley.org