Crafting the Lyric Essay

About the Author

Heidi Czerwiec is an essayist and poet, the author of four chapbooks, the full-length poetry collection Conjoining (2017), and of the lyric essay collection Fluid States, which was winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. She is the editor of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets (2015). and her recent work appears in Brevity, Superstition Review, Waxwing, Assay, and River Teeth, and in the anthologies A Harp in the Stars, Nasty Women Poets and New Poetry from the Midwest. She holds an MFA from UNC-Greensboro and a PhD from the University of Utah, USA where she was a professor for twelve years before absconding to write and teach in Minneapolis, where she is an Editor for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. She was previouls Associate Professor at University of North Dakota, USA where she directed the Creative Writing Program and the annual UND Writers Conference.