Motherland

Heather Nelson has been a student of poetry since college, where she developed her thesis project under the guidance of CD Wright and Peter Gizzi at Brown University in 1991.

After a break, she returned to writing in 2011 and has since been published in Ekphrastic Review, Lily Poetry Review, Nixes Mate, Spoon River Review, and many other publications. Heather leads a local free-write group, runs workshops at Grub Street, and plans events for Boston Book Festival’s Litcrawl and other community writing events. Heather is already working on her next book of poetry.

Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (May 17, 2025)