Heather Swan
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.
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Metaphysics
A painful lesson in Zen and the art of honeybee reverence
Heather Swan
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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