Heather Altfeld
and Lisa Allen Ortiz
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Heather Altfelds first book, The Disappearing Theatre,
won the 2015 Poets at Work Prize, judged by Stephen Dunn. Her poems, Blueprint for the Infinite and Two Pockets
won the 2015 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry with Nimrod International Magazine. She is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers
and has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center. She has poetry published or forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, ZYZZYVA,
Okey-Panky, TLR, Miramar Poetry Review, West Marin Review, Poetry Northwest, Jewish Currents, Watershed Review, The Squaw Valley Review,
Clackamas, The Arroyo Review, The New Guard, The Greensboro Review, Superstition Review, Laurel Review, and Zone 3. She
loves to cook, travel, and be outdoors, and has an unlimited passion for the unfamiliar. She also adores and collects childrens
literature, particularly from writers such as Leo Lionni, William Steig, and E.B. White. She lectures in English and the Honors Program
at California State University, Chico and at Butte Community College.
Learn more on the Poems and Essays page on Heather Altfelds website.
Lisa managed to make herself a little website where you can read more: www.lisaallenortiz.com
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Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from Arts Council Santa Cruz County. Some events are supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. Poetry Santa Cruz is also grateful for the support of its members and donors, In Celebration of the Muse, and those who donated in memory of Maude Meehan and Kathleen Flowers. The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years. Our readings are supported by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, Cabrillo College, Darling House, and KUSP. Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Robert Sward, Coffee House Press, Copper Canyon Press, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. | |
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