Larry Bradley's manuscript "The Spirit of Gravity" was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the Walt Whitman Award, and the National Poetry Series. His poetry has twice been a finalist for the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award and has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, and Poetry Northwest. He has won the 2003 Morton Marr Poetry Prize from the Southwest Review and a New Millennium Writings Award and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2004 Sewanee Writers' Conference.