Through generative-writing poetry prompts, explore the natural world and the human connection to our surroundings. With Heather Lang-Cassera as our guide, we will read and write ecopoems. No creative-writing experience is required. This workshop will open with a reading by visiting writer Kendra Atleework, author of Miracle County, winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award.

Heather Lang-Cassera is a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Fellow, Publisher with Tolsun Books, Lecturer with Nevada State College, and Clark County, Nevada, Poet Laureate Emeritus (2019-2021). Her poems and stories have been published in Las Vegas Writes, Lumina, The Normal School, North American Review, Paper Darts, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. Her full-length collection of poems, Gathering Broken Light, written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council Grant, was published in 2021 with Unsolicited Press. www.heatherlang.cassera.net

Kendra Atleework was born and raised on the dry edge of California at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. She moved away for a decade, mostly spent being homesick and researching the place she left behind—the product of which is Miracle Country. She is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and was selected for The Best American Essays, edited by Ariel Levy. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and now lives in her hometown of Bishop, California.

Nevada Reads In Your Library brings authors and literary programming to public libraries across Nevada. This program is produced by Nevada Humanities and is made possible with support from Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.