Heather Lang-Cassera served as the 2019-2021 Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate and was named Las Vegasโ 2017 โBest Local Writer or Poetโ by the readers of Nevada Public Radioโs Desert Companion. She is a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow. Heather holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her poems have been published by Cider Press Review, december, Diode, Lumina, The Normal School, North American Review, Paper Darts, Pleiades, South Dakota Review, Whiskey Island and many other publications.