Sustainability Showcase Events: Poet and Author Heather Swan 3/22-23

On March 22 and 23, Penn State Sustainability is offering several events featuring eco-poet, nonfiction nature writer, and professor Heather Swan. Swan will be joining Penn State for these events, open to all:

  • Keynote and Reading, Friday, March 22, at noon in Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library (virtual attendance is possible — a registration link will be coming soon).
  • Nature Writing Workshop, Friday, March 22, at 4 p.m. in 201 Patterson Building, co-hosted with the Penn State Arboretum (space is limited) — register here
  • Book Reading, Saturday, March 23, at 4 p.m. at Webster’s Bookstore Cáfe

Heather Swan’s poetry has appeared in journals such as Poet Lore, Phoebe, Cold Mountain, The Raleigh Review, Basalt, About Place, Midwestern Gothic, The Hopper and anthologies such as Healing the Divide, New Poetry from the Midwest, and The Rewilding Anthology. Her chapbook, The Edge of Damage, was published by Parallel Press and won the Wisconsin Writers Chapbook Award, and her full collection, A Kinship with Ash, was published by Terrapin Books. Her nonfiction has appeared in journals such as Aeon, Catapult, The Learned Pig, Minding Nature, Edge Effects, Belt Magazine, and Resilience Journal and her book, Where Honeybees Thrive Stories from the Field, was published by Penn State Press. She teaches writing and environmental literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

More detailed information can be found on the Sustainability PSU website:https://sustainability.psu.edu/event/sustainability-showcase-heather-swan/2024-03-22/

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