Bradley Steffens is a novelist, poet, playwright, and author of more than forty nonfiction books for children and young adults. Steffens is a two-time recipient of the San Diego Book Award for Best Young Adult & Children's Nonfiction. His Giants won the 2005 award and his People in the News: J.K. Rowling received the 2007 prize. J.K. Rowling also received the Theodor S. Geisel Award for the best published book by a San Diego County author in 2007. Five of Steffens' books, including Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist, have been selected by California Readers to be part of the California Collections. Steffens' poetry has appeared in more than seventy literary journals, including Crosscurrents, Sidewalks, Loonfeather, Stone Country, and The Bellingham Review. Steffens has won several prizes for his poetry, including the Emerging Voices Award presented by The Loft Literary Center, the Lake Superior Writing Competition sponsored by the Duluth Public Library, and the annual poetry contest sponsored by the Saint Paul chapter of the American Association of University Women. The Minneapolis-based Olympia Arts Ensemble produced his play-in-verse, Virodha-Bhakti, a Sequence of Pageants in 1981. Noel Bredahl of the St. Paul Post-Dispatch hailed the play as "an awesome creation on the part of the playwright." David Hawley, also of the St. Paul Post Dispatch, wrote, “Steffens is a powerful, talented artist."

Andy is the author of sixteen non-fiction titles, including histories of the Leopold & Loeb trial, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Blues, and biographies of figures including Bruce Lee, Charles Manson, Pol Pot, and Nelson Mandela. He is also the editor of a volume of essays, Examining Pop Culture: Crime and Criminals. Andy is also a fiction writer, essayist, and poet with publications in journals and anthologies including Black Scat Noir, Black Scat Review, Sunshine Noir II, Fiction International, Central Park, The Southern Anthology, Collage & Bricolage, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Conceptions Southwest, Heaven Bone, and others. He is the author of two fiction collections: Narrative Cult Visions (1997 MFA thesis) and The Veronicas of Our Own Perversions (2024).