Richard Broderick is the author of Woman Lake, a collection of poems published by New Rivers Press earlier this year. The recipient of a 1996 Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship in literature, he has been a finalist for the Hollis Summers and Mid-List Awards, has won the Donn Goodwin Memorial Poetry Award and in 1997 was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared, or are pending, in Prairie Schooner, The Greensboro Review, The Nebraska Review and elsewhere. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota where he co-edits The Great River Review. (2000)