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Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field

  • Chippewa Falls Public Library 105 West Central Street Chippewa Falls, WI, 54729 United States (map)

Heather Swan

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This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Chippewa Falls Public Library.

Heather’s hopeful book introduces us to an interdisciplinary force of people from all over the world working to change the fate of pollinators and to make the world a healthier place for humans too.

>> Our book sales committee will have copies of Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field available for purchase at this event. Please join us for an autographing session following the presentation.
 

HEATHER SWAN'S creative nonfiction has appeared in Aeon, ISLE, Resilience, About Place Journal, and Edge Effects. Her poetry has appeared in such places as Poet Lore, Raleigh Review, Phoebe, Basalt, Midwestern Gothic, Cold Mountain Review, The Hopper, and About Place Journal. Her book Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press, 2017) received the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award from Northland College. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Earlier Event: October 24
The Transformative Power of Stories
Later Event: October 25
From Where I Stand: Point of View in Novel Writing

Thank you to the following partners and sponsors for supporting this year’s festival.

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Pablo Center at the Confluence
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire Foundation
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