Broderick Eaton grew up exploring the natural world out her back door in the foothills of the Cascades. She returned permanently to the Pacific Northwest after living in Costa Rica, Virginia, and Spain. At the beginning of her first year of college in rural Virginia, her writing career began when she stumbled into a life-changing introduction to poet Mary Oliver. This turned into informal poetry classes and then independent studies with both Mary Oliver and with author John Gregory Brown. After college, she fell into her first adult iteration as a high school Spanish teacher and completely forgot about writing for many years. Nearly two decades later, the muses returned and demanded an audience, and the seeds sewn in that tiny office in Virginia suddenly burst into bloom.

Writing actively for only the last few years, Eaton strives to draw parallel the inexorable rhythms of the natural environment we inhabit and the treasures to be found if only we look around us and live in the moment, in this world full of awe.

After the recent completion of an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University, Eaton has revisited her interest in fiction and essay and has expanded her repertoire and publication list.

Fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian, she enjoys travel to far off places and lives in the high desert of Oregon with her family, an eerily human Catahoula dog and a monarchy of cats. She spends as much time as possible in the forest and mountains.