Lisa Marie Brodsky

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 M.F.A. in Poetry in 2005. She has been featured on Madison Public Radio, WISC-TV, and in Madison Magazine. Her poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction have been published in The North American Review (as a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize), Circle Magazine, The Southern Ocean Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, Pirene’s Fountain, among others. She is the Wisconsin Director for the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project and writes about the illness in her poetry chapbook, “We Nod Our Dark Heads” (Parallel Press, 2008). Brodsky works in Madison, WI as a vocational assistant for adults with disabilities and lives in Evansville, WI, with her husband and three stepchildren.