Field Notes from the Flood Zone

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Heather Sellers has appeared widely in the media for her nonfiction writing, in particular for her memoirYou Dont Look Like Anyone I Know, which describes her family history with mental illness and her diagnosis of prosopagnosia (face-blindness) in her late 20s. She has appeared onDateline, Dick Gordons The Story, Good Morning America,NPRsAll Things Considered, Rachel Ray,andThe Today Showas well as local radio and television programs in New York City and Tampa Bay, Florida.

Strong regional appeal in the South, with particular appeal in Florida and other cities along the Gulf Coast.

Along with shifts in the natural landscape, Sellerss poems chronicle the shifts in her community as thousands of people move to FloridaThats a whole Pittsburg dropped here on this fragile, slender peninsula each year, she notes. Im as interested in the behavior of the humans around me as I am in the clouds, reptiles, and vines.

Publication will coincide with Earth Day 2022.

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Reading Heather Sellersnew 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 spectacularlyoriginal that you don't just read these poems, you steep yourself in them. What a triumph!
Abigail Thomas, author of Safekeeping

Author Bio

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 Dont Look Like Anyone I Know (Riverhead, 2011), which was an O, the Oprah Magazine Book of the Month Club Choice and an Editors 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, Readers 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.