Nancy Paddock is a poet and oral historian who lives and gardens in Litchfield, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets From Pre-Territorial Days to the Present; The Writer Dreaming in the Artist's House; and Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude. Trust the Wild Heart (Red Dragonfly Press, 2006) was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award in poetry. She is also the author of a A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer's and Love (Blueroad Press, 2011), a memoir about her parents' lives, their Alzheimer's disease, and their deaths four days apart. Most recently, she is the author of COOKING WITH PAVAROTTI (Red Dragonfly Press, 2012).
