Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Lisa Marie Brodsky was the Martha Meir Renk Graduate Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received an MFA in Poetry in 2005. She has been featured on Madison Public Radio, WISC-TV, and in Madison Magazine. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have been published in The North American Review, Circle Magazine, The Southern Ocean Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, and Pirene's Fountain, among others. She is the Wisconsin Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project and writes about the illness in her chapbook We Nod Our Dark Heads (Parallel Press, 2008). Her latest poetry collection is Motherlung (Salmon Poetry, 2014) and she teaches and lectures around the state on healing through the written word. Brodsky is on faculty of AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop and is a vocational assistant for adults with disabilities in Madison and lives in Evansville with her husband and three stepchildren.

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