hlstaples

Heidi Lynn Staples' debut collection, Guess Can Gallop, was selected by Brenda Hillman as a winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is author of four other collections, including A**AA*A*A (Ahsahta, 2018), a grant-supported collection using field-research to consider attachment and becoming a poet-of-place in Alabama. She is the founding faculty coordinator of the EcoLit Arts Project: Mobile-Tenesaw Basin, a bioregional interdisciplinary arts initiative; and with the poet Amy King, Staples is coeditor and cofounder of Poets for Living Waters, begun as an international response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and of Big Energy Poets: When Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change (BlazeVOX, 2017).