Richard Hedderman’s latest book of poems, Choosing a Stone, was published by Finishing Line Press. He is the author of a chapbook, The Discovery of Heaven (Parallel Press). Additional publishing credits include poems in The American Journal of Poetry, Rattle, Chicago Quarterly Review, Chautauqua Literary Review, Kestrel, Skald(Wales), The Midwest Quarterly, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and the anthology, In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press). A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, he has served as a guest poet at the Library of Congress, and performed his writing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.