Heather Bourbeau, Some Days the Bird and Monarch

Join us for an event with author, Heather Bourbeau, as she reads from her latest poetry collections, Some Days the Bird, and Monarch.

Heather Bourbeau's fiction and poetry have appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Revew, Meridian and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. Originally from Reno, she has worked with various UN agencies around the world, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia.

Her latest book, Monarch, is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the American West she was raised in, and Some Days the Bird is a poetry conversation over the course of 2021 with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey.