Dr Janine Bradbury is a writer, an academic, and a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Culture at the University of York specialising in 20th- and 21st-century Black literature and culture.
A BBC New Generation Thinker, she’s appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4 on programmes including Free Thinking, The Essay, Woman's Hour, and Great Lives. Her work on Toni Morrison, Grace Jones, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Key & Peele, and Dave Chappelle has been published by the Guardian, Bloomsbury, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and elsewhere.
She also writes poetry. Her debut pamphlet Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy (ignitionpress 2024) was a Poetry Book Society choice.
“This is a poet…who really knows what she is doing.” — The Poetry Review
“a masterful ride”…”reminiscent of great songwriters” — The Poetry Book Society
“This is an exciting debut…tender and astute poems that grapple with love, grief, ghosts, and motherhood...” — Rachel Long
“…a deft, wise & exciting new voice in British poetry.” — Rebecca Tamás
“Janine’s poetry is full of beauty and ache and humour.” — Charlotte Shevchenko Knight