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Highlights
- Heather Sellers has appeared widely in the media for her nonfiction writing, in particular for her memoir You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know, which describes her family history with mental illness and her diagnosis of prosopagnosia (face-blindness) in her late 20s.
- About the Author: Heather Sellers is the author of four poetry collections: Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA, 2022); The Present State of the Garden (Lynx House Press, 2021); The Boys I Borrow (New Issues Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award; and Drinking Girls and Their Dresses (Ahsahta Press, 2002).
- 80 Pages
- Poetry, Subjects & Themes
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About the Book
Drawn from daily observations, Heather Sellers's poems ponder the changing Florida Coast as the population swells and the waters rise.Book Synopsis
Review Quotes
"Reading
Heather Sellers' new book of poems, I am by turns dazzled, harrowed,
fascinated, afraid, and then my mouth falls open coming upon an image or a
phrase so lovely and unexpected that I have to close my eyes and let it
surround me. Field Notes from the Flood Zone is a
book so spectacularly original that you don't just read these poems, you
steep yourself in them. What a triumph!"
Thomas, author of Safekeeping
About the Author
Heather Sellers is the author of four poetry collections: Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA, 2022); The Present State of the Garden (Lynx House Press, 2021); The Boys I Borrow (New Issues Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award; and Drinking Girls and Their Dresses (Ahsahta Press, 2002). She is also the author of the memoir You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know (Riverhead, 2011), which was an O, the Oprah Magazine Book of the Month Club Choice and an Editor's Choice at the New York Times, and the craft book The Practice of Creative Writing (Macmillan St. Martins Bedford, 2021), now in its fourth edition. Her writing has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies, including Best American Essays, Creative Nonfiction, Good Housekeeping, The New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Reader's Digest, The Sun, and Tin House. She has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a residency at The MacDowell Colony. She teaches poetry and nonfiction in the MFA program at the University of South Florida. A native Floridian, she divides her time between St. Petersburg, Florida, and Manhattan. For more information about Heather Sellers, visit heathersellers.com.