
Heather Swan’s nonfiction has appeared in Aeon, Belt, Catapult, Minding Nature, and Terrain. Her book, Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press, 2017) won the 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. A collection of her poems, A Kinship with Ash, was published by Terrapin Books in 2020. She teaches environmental literature and writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.