Heather Swan is the author of the nonfiction book, Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press), winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award; the chapbook of poems, The Edge of Damage (Parallel Press), winner of Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Best Chapbook Award; and the forthcoming book of poems, A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin Books). Her nonfiction has appeared in such places as Aeon, Belt Magazine, Catapult, Minding Nature, Basalt, ISLE, and Edge Effects. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Poet Lore, The Hopper, Phoebe, Cold Mountain Review, Midwestern Gothic, The Raleigh Review and several anthologies. She has been the recipient of the Martha Meyer Renk Fellowship in Poetry, the August Derleth Prize, and an Illinois Arts Council Artist Grant. She teaches writing and environmental literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.