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Bradley Somer’s most recent novel is entitled We Are All of Us Left Behind (Freehand, 2025).

Extinction, which was published throughout the Commonwealth (HarperCollins UK, 2022) and North America (Blackstone Publishing, 2022). It was a best sci-fi/fantasy selection by The Guardian UK and has appeared on several similar lists since. He also penned the screenplay for Extinction, which has been jointly acquired by two Los Angeles-based production companies and is currently in development. 

Fishbowl (St. Martin’s Press & Penguin Random House UK, 2015), which sold in twelve regions worldwide, including five language translations, two audiobook productions, and has been continuously optioned for film since publication. This book was awarded the Georges Bugnet Award for fiction and was long-listed for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Awards. It was well-reviewed in the Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan UK, among others, and was selected as one of The San Diego Union Tribune’s Best Books of 2015. 

And Imperfections (Nightwood Editions, 2012), which was his debut novel, earning a starred review from Quill & Quire magazine and was one of the Canadian Bookseller’s Association Top Picks for 2012.

Bradley has also had nearly 40 short stories published in various literary magazines and collections. He was a recipient of the 2016 Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Emerging Artist, and more recently was the writer in residence at: The Banff Centre for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society, and the W.O. Mitchell URSA Retreat Centre.

Bradley holds degrees in archaeology and anthropology, and has worked in the oil patch as a heritage resource manager, living in camps so remote they could be only reached by helicopter. He’s worked dark-night shifts at Pizza Hut, and in landscaping, and as a real estate agent, all the while writing and writing and writing some more. He’s been married to his husband for 18 years and they live a mostly happy life with friends and family around, having adventures and all the amazing things that come with sharing that amount of time together and sharing the realizations that these years are too short.

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