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 others. 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.