Heather Bourbeau

Heather Bourbeau’s award-winning fiction and poetry have appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. 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. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia.

She is the co-author of "Some Days The Bird," a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her poetry collection "Monarch" is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the American West she was raised in (Cornerstone Press, March 2023).