Heather Altfeld’s first book, The Disappearing Theatre won the Poets at Work Book Prize, selected by Stephen Dunn. Her poems appear in Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, ZYZZYVA, and others. She is the recipient of the 2017 Robert H. Winner Award with the Poetry Society of America and the 2015 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She lives in Chico, California, where she teaches literature and writing.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“Dear House, Don’t Burn”: On Svetlana Alexievich’s “Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II”
Heather Altfeld listens to the voices in “Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II” by Svetlana Alexievich....
The Oak, the Oakling, and the Cellar Book: A Fête of Fadimans
Heather Altfeld savors Anne Fadiman's "The Wine Lover’s Daughter."...
