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HEIDI HERMANSON has been published in Midwest Quarterly, Hiram Poetry Review, PlainSpoke, Filling the
Empty Room, Mental Horizons, Midwest Compilation, and elsewhere. She has been in many public art projects
such as "8 counts/24" (writers had 24 hours to write on a theme pulled randomly from a hat) "OmaHome" (writers
wrote inspired by a piece of artwork; the writing was then interpreted by a local actor), and the benchMarks
project, which featured brief inspirational quotes on bus benches throughout the city. She organized the first
Poets' Chautauqua at the State Fair and there released her first chapbook, Midwest Hotel. Her second
chapbook, Missouri Joyride, is forthcoming. She has organized and directed three ekphrastic shows which
she describes as a marriage between visual art and poetry. She runs a monthly open mike, "Naked Words"
and has performed her winning work accompanied by Silver Roots,
a New York-based violin and flute duo.
In 2010 she won the Omaha Public Library's annual poetry contest and performed her winning work accompanied
by Silver Roots, a New York-based violin and flute duo. She has read at the John H Milton Conference in
Vermillion, SD, at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, at Tunes in the Town Square (which features
poetry at the band's break) in Ralston, Nebraska, on the Kerry Pedestrian Bridge over the Missouri, and
at the Roebuck Pub in England. In her spare time she hopes to open a library of maps to towns that do not exist
and learning dialects of the seven-year cicada. In 2008 she received her MFA from the University of Nebraska at
Omaha.
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