Parallel Press Poetry Chapbooks

The Discovery of Heaven
Richard Hedderman
$10

Richard Hedderman is a poet, freelance writer, and museum educator. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco’s English and theatre programs and earned a master’s in creative writing at the University of New Hampshire. A three-time Poetry Fellow at the New York State Writers’ Institute under the directorship of Irish poet John Montague, his poems have appeared in numerous national and international publications including Chautauqua Literary Journal, South Dakota Review, CutBank, Stolen Island Review, Puckerbrush Review and the Welsh language literary journal Skald. He has read his poems for the “Poetry at Noon” series at the Library of Congress and his work has been collected in the anthology In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press, 2005). In addition to writing, Richard is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, teaching and choreographing stage combat for professional theaters and universities nationwide. He plies his craft with pen and sword from his home base of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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