SJ Bradley is a short story writer, novelist, and audio drama playwright from Leeds, UK. Her fiction has been published in the UK by Comma Press (Conradology, Resist!) and Dead Ink (Brick Mother, Guest).

She is a K Blundell Trust Award winner, and the winner of a Saboteur Award for her work as editor on Remembering Oluwale (Valley Press). She was previously director of the Northern Short Story Festival, where she instigated the NSSF Academy development programme for new writers in the North of England.

More recently, she is a graduate of the Cambridge University PGcert in Teaching Creative Writing, which she attended on a scholarship from First Story.

Her new book, Maps of Imaginary Towns, is forthcoming from Fly On the Wall press in September 2024.