Lecturer in environmental literature and writing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Heather Swan writes non-fiction and poetry. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specialises in environmental humanities, and she also keeps bees. She is the author Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (2017), which won the 2017 Sigurd F Olson Nature Writing Award.
idea
Metaphysics
A painful lesson in Zen and the art of honeybee reverence
Heather Swan
essay
Bioethics
The sorrow of bees
Scientists torturing bees to save them have nightmares about the work. Must grief be part of experimental design?
Heather Swan