Bradford és una activista a favor de la igualtat racial i de gènere tant dins com fora de la comunitat de ficció de la ciència. El 2005 va fundar el blogthe Angry Black Woman i les seves contribucions en el mateix han aparegut en Feminist SF: The Blog, ColorLines, NPR's News & Notes i en llibres de textos d'estudis afroamericans.[3][4]
Bradford es va graduar en la Gallatin School of Individualized Study de la Universitat de Nova York i també fou alumna de la Clarion West Writers Workshop i d'Online Writing Workshop. Bradford Ha estat jurat del premi James Triptre Jr i vicepresidenta de la Societat Carl Brandon.
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Ficció
"The Copper Scarab" in Clockwork Cairo, ed. Matthew Bright, 2017 and Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Bill Campbell, 2019.[5]
"Until Forgiveness Comes" in Strange Horizons, 2008 and In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World, ed. Douglas Lain, 2015[6]
"Uncertainty Principle" in Diverse Energies, 2012.
"Black Feather" in Interfictions, 2007;[7] PodCastle, 2010, and Happily Ever After, ed. John Klima, 2011.[8]
"Elan Vital" in Sybil's Garage No. 6, 2009 and EscapePod episode 269, 2010.[9]
"Enmity" in Electric Velocipede issue 17/18, 2009.[10]
"Different Day" in Federations, 2009.
"The Seventh Reflection" in Thou Shalt Not... a horror and dark fantasy anthology, 2006.
"Change of Life" in Farthing, 2006; PodCastle, 2009.[11]
"Hard Rain" in Farthing, 2006.
"Why I Don't Drink Anymore" (as Finley Larkin) in Abyss & Apex, 2003.
"Why 'Black' and Not 'African American'?", Key Debates: An Introduction To African American Studies. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Jennifer Burton (January 2010)
Q&A, The WisCon Chronicles, vol. 1. Aqueduct Press, 2007.
"On the Clarion Workshops", The WisCon Chronicles, vol. 2. Aqueduct Press, 2008.