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Heather Nelson first studied poetry in college, where she developed her thesis project under the guidance of C. D. Wright and Peter Gizzi at Brown University in 1994. She returned to writing in 2011 and has since been published in Ekphrastic Review, Lily Poetry Review, Spoon River Review and others. Her first book, Motherland, was published by Kelsay Books in 2025. She currently leads a local free-write, runs writing workshops for high school students and hosts a book group in Cambridge, Mass. She has been active in the Boston area literary scene, and has taught classes at Grub Street, planned events for Litcrawl, as well as organized author talks and other activities.