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Monday, September 22, 7:00pm via Zoom
In collaboration with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and Jennifer Dail, Professor of English Education and Director of the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project
RSVP
Heather Swan, a poet and nonfiction writer, is the author of the nonfiction books
Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection and Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field, the latter of which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in such journals as The Sun, Emergence, Catapult, and Minding Nature. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Cold Mountain, The Hopper, One Art, Poet Lore, Phoebe, The Raleigh Review, and Terrain. Her book of poems, A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin Books), published in 2020, was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award and long-listed for the Julie Suk Award. A second collection, Dandelion, was published in 2023. She is also a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the Maud Weinschenk Award, the August Derleth Prize for Poetry, the John Tigges Poetry Award, A Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Award, and an honorable mention for the Lorine Neidecker Award. She teaches environmental literature and writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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