Richard Hedderman

Richard Hedderman is a multi-Pushcart Prize nominated poet and author whose most recent book of poems is Choosing a Stone (Finishing Line Press.) His writing has appeared in dozens of literary journals both in the U.S. and abroad, and his essays, interviews, and poetry have aired on public radio. Publishing credits include The Stockholm Review of Literature, The American Journal of Poetry, Rattle, The Midwest Quarterly, Santa Fe Literary Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Verse Wisconsin, Kestrel, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Skald (Wales), Clerestory Magazine, Anglers Journal, Bramble, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts, and Lacuna: Independent Punk Zine, among many others. His poems have been collected in several anthologies including In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press), which features his poem series based on Hamlet. He has worked as a house painter, actor, bartender, bookstore clerk, voiceover artist, museum educator, performing arts journalist, and stage combat professional, an art form in which he holds an Advanced Actor/Combatant certification with the Society of American Fight Directors. He has also served as a Guest Poet at the Library of Congress, a National Endowment for the Arts panelist, coordinator of the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books, and U.S. Department of State Cultural Liaison. He has taught poetry workshops around the country, performed his writing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is formerly Writer-in-Residence at the Milwaukee Public Museum. He lives with his wife in Milwaukee where he teaches creative writing at Mount Mary University.