Meredith Heller is a California-based poet, singer-songwriter, avid nature-woman, and educator with degrees in writing and education. She studied in the graduate departments of Johns Hopkins University, Naropa University, and Goddard College. A California Poet in the Schools and Poetry Out Loud coach, she leads workshops for grades 1-12 at public and private schools, the Creative Writing Department at Marin School of the Arts, Juvenile Detention Centers, Women's Prisons, and nationally online for women and teens. She has been teaching workshops, writing books, and performing original poetry & music since 1996. She is the author of Write a Poem, Save Your Life (New World Library, 2021), and three poetry collections, Songlines, RiverSpells, and Yuba Witch (Finishing Line Press, 2019 & 2021). Her poetry and essays appear in numerous literary journals, books, and collections including Rebelle Society, We'Moon, Raw Earth Ink, Sad Girls Lit, Quiet Lightning, Tiny Seed, The Aquarian, Avocet, Common Ground, American Songwriter, Tiny House, Creation & The Cosmos, Women, Their Names, & The Stories They Tell, Aphrodisiac. An avid nature woman, who spent 15 summers solo backpacking, she hikes the trails daily and lives with a gentle footprint in a tiny cottage in Northern California. She spends her summers, camping and writing beside rivers and oceans. For more info visit: www.meredithheller.com