Heather Swan writes nonfiction and poetry. She is the recipient of the Sigurd F Olson Nature Writing Award for nonfiction and the August Derleth Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Sun, Emergence, Terrain, The Hopper, and Minding Nature. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specialises in environmental humanities. Her most recent books are Dandelion (poems) (2023) and Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection (2024).