Episode 19: Heather Lang-Cassera

This week our guest is Heather Lang-Cassera. Heather is a a full-time lecturer with Nevada State University, a Tolsun Books publisher, a Black Fox Literary Magazine poetry editor, and a Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate Emeritus. She was a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow. She is the author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021), which was written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council grant and won the NYC Big Book Award in Poetry, Social/Political. Her collection of ecopoems, Firefall, is forthcoming with Unsolicited Press in 2025. Her poetry is widely published including in Lumina, North American Review, Raleigh Review, and South Dakota Review, and etched into sidewalks as permanent installations by both the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada. Her work can be found at www.heatherlang.cassera.net