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Heather Swan is the author of the poetry collection A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin Books), which was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award, and the chapbook The Edge of Damage (Parallel Press), which won the Wisconsin Chapbook Award. She is also the author of the non-fiction book Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press), which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and a companion book, Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection. She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the Maud Weinshenk Award, and the August Derleth Prize for Poetry. She teaches environmental literature and writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.