Heather Lang-Cassera is an author and ceramist. She was awarded a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship, served as the 2019-2021 Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate, and was named 2017 Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of Nevada Public Radio's Desert Companion. Heather teaches creative writing with Nevada State University where she serves as a faculty advisor for 300 Days of Sun. She also serves as the Poetry Editor for Black Fox Literary Magazine, as an Editor with Tolsun Books, and as a Studio Assistant with Clay Arts Vegas where she teaches hand-building classes. Her previous collection, Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021), was written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council Project Grant for Artists, was named a Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Press Awards, and won the NYC Big Book Award in Poetry, Social/Political. She is also the author of the micro-collection Where Hunger Must Be Feral (rinky dink press, 2023) and the chapbook I was the girl with the moon-shaped face (Zeitgeist Press, 2018).