Heather Altfeld’s first book, The Disappearing Theatre (Poets at Work Press, 2016), won the Poets@Work Book Prize, judged by Stephen Dunn. Her poetry has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, and others. She won the 2015 Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry with Nimrod International Journal. She teaches in the English Department and the Honors Program at California State University–Chico and is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.  

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