Heather Yanda

Education

• BA: Creative Writing and Design Production Alfred University, 1991
• MFA: Poetry Western Michigan University, 1995

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Poetry
• Contemporary American Poetry
• Contemporary Irish Poetry
• Personal Essay
• Poetry on Art
• English 101 and 102

Research, Publications, & Presentations

Research & Publications

• Late Summer's Origami, my first poetry collection, is forthcoming from Ashland Poetry Press, in January, 2019.
• Poems published or forthcoming in: Calyx, Slipstream, The Windsor Review, Kalliope, Dalhousie Review, Square Lake, Tar River Poetry, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, The Yale Journal of Medical Humanities, Literature and Belief, Spiritus, The Able Muse, Mudfish.

Awards/Honors

• The Mary Wager Fisher Literary Prize, Alfred University, 1991.

Activities

Travel - throughout the United States and Europe, particularly in Ireland and Sweden