Broadsided Press came about when, after earning her MFA in poetry, Elizabeth Bradfield longed to keep alive that sense of a literary community. She wanted to feel as deeply engaged with the arts as she had while attending the University of Alaska. She was scrambling to make ends meet, so she didn’t want to embark on a costly venture that wouldn’t allow her time for her own creative work: “But the pull was there, so I started looking around and thinking about what in my own past I could draw on that might create a new and exciting conversation that would be sustainable,” Bradfield explained in a recent interview.