Biographical Sketch

Tony Bradman was born in Balham, London, January 22nd 1954, and grew up in south London. After attending local primary and grammar schools he graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge, then worked as a journalist. He spent eleven years on the staff of Parents magazine, where he was the children's books reviewer.

After university he started sending poems to small magazines and got a few published in IRON, something he has in common with David Almond. Poetry Review, the magazine of the Poetry Society, gave him his first payment for his writing...£15 for a poem.

He now lives in Beckenham, less than a mile from the area of south London where he grew up. He is children's fiction reviewer for the Daily Telegraph.