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Heather Altfeld

Poet/Essayist/Teacher/Editor

Essays

Obituary for Dead Languages

Obituary for Dead Languages, published 2018 in Conjuctions Magazine, selected for Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit

A Scribe in the Double-House of Life, Conjunctions Magazine, 2019

A Scribe in the Double-House of Life, Conjunctions Magazine, 2019, selected as a Best Notable American Essay 2020

The Magical Substratum (excerpt)

Excerpt from The Magical Substratum, published 2019 in Conjunctions Magazine, republished in part on Lit Hub

Discussion with editor Bradford Morrow (16:45) of Heather's essay, With Their Feet in the Water, and Their Heads in the Fire, published Conjuctions Magazine Fall 2023

Order the back issue of Orion Magazine of Nature, Culture, and Place here, with Heather Altfeld's essay (photography by Byron Wolfe):  Unearthing the Mammoth

Here is a sliver of "The Magical Substratum," published in the Earth Elegies issue of Conjunctions Magazine.

 

https://lithub.com/the-endless-memories-preserved-in-siberias-ice/

Essay, "Photography, Storytelling, and the Inhospitable World," dedicated to the work of John Berger.  It appears in ZYZZYVA's Spring 2019 issue on art:  https://www.zyzzyva.org/

Obituary for Dead Languages, first published Conjunctions #70

This essay also appears in the 2019 Best American Essays, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Robert Atwan. You can purchase it here, while supporting local independent bookstores: Best American Essays 2019 at Bookshop.Org

Poetry Northwest, "The Poetics of Taxidermy"
Poetry Northwest, "Modernity Explains Unfortunate Events"
Superstition Review, "Unpacking the Library of Childhood: One Poet's Thoughts"
Superstition Review, "Assigning Solitude"
Claremont Courier, "The World Inside the Word" for Rosemary Adam
North American Review, "On the Feeble Attempt to Teach Beauty"
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