Heather Swan, PhD, is a poet and nonfiction writer. She 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 (Penn State Press), the latter of which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Her poetry collection A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin Books), published in 2020, was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award and longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. A second collection, Dandelion, was published in 2023. She invites students to consider wonder and connection in her environmental humanities classes in Madison, Wisconsin.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANS & NATURE:
- Poetry editor of Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026). Heather’s poem “Gleam” and her essay “The Sting of Awareness” appear in this volume.
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“Invitation,” a poem in Elementals: An Elemental Life, Vol. 5 (Humans & Nature Press, 2024).
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“Boy I” and “Boy II,” poems in Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations—Vol. 3, Partners (Humans & Nature Press, 2021).
- What the Owls Knew
- Slow Seeing
From Minding Nature’s Fall 2018, Volume 11, Number 3 issue.
