Heidi Czerwiec is an essayist and poet. She is the author of four chapbooks, the full-length poetry collection Conjoining, and the lyric essay collection Fluid States, winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. She is the editor of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets. Her recent work appears in River Teeth, Essay Daily, CRAFT, Hippocampus, and in the anthology A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays. Czerwiec holds an MFA from UNC-Greensboro and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She was a professor for 12 years before absconding to write and teach in Minneapolis, where she is a contributing editor for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.