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Essayist, Poet, Perfumista

I write essays and poetry and every hybrid in between — prose poetry, lyric essays, haibun — and I write craft and critical work on these as well, most recently Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, available from Bloomsbury. I also am an editor — anthology (including the forthcoming Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay), freelance, and at Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies — and reviewer, mainly of books by women/nonbinary authors from small presses, although I’ve also been writing fun microreviews on Twitter where I describe a recent read and pair it with its perfume equivalent under #perfumebookpairing

After nearly twenty years teaching at the university level, my family and I made the leap to Minneapolis, where I’m happily infiltrating its arts (and craft beer) community.

Currently, I teach with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, Normandale Community College, the University of Minnesota, and occasionally elsewhere.

When not writing and teaching, I collect and sniff perfume, forage for mushrooms, spend too much time on social media, and answer to “Mom.”

BIOS:

Short:

Poet and essayist Heidi Czerwiec is the author of Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, the lyric essay collection Fluid States, winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, and the poetry collection Conjoining. She teaches and writes in Minneapolis. Visit her at heidiczerwiec.com

Medium:

Essayist and poet Heidi Czerwiec is the author of Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, the lyric essay collection Fluid States (selected by Dinty W. Moore as winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose), and the poetry collection Conjoining, and is the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay and editor of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets. She writes and teaches in Minneapolis, where she is an Editor for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Visit her at heidiczerwiec.com

Long:

Heidi Czerwiec is an essayist and poet, the author of Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, the lyric essay collection Fluid States (selected by Dinty W. Moore as winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose), and the poetry collection Conjoining, and is the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay and editor of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets, as well as four chapbooks. 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, and was a professor and writing conference director at the University of North Dakota for twelve years before absconding to write and teach in Minneapolis, where she is a Senior Editor for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Visit her at heidiczerwiec.com