Author: Mary Heather
Getting Back on Track
When I was a kid, my father used to take me on long bike rides to the shore of Lake Erie, in the town next to ours. Our town and …
Notes on a Tail Spin
Suppose you have just graduated from your MFA program, and you’re all aglow from people’s response to your work, feeling a sense of confidence — a currency with which you’ve …
Creating the Shift
Recently, at a literary gathering, I shared the details of my reading at Arizona State University’s Sustainability Solutions Festival in Phoenix with some of my writer friends. I described the …
What I Learned on an Elevator with Sebastian Junger: A Writing Conference Lesson
Years ago, when I was just starting to seriously contemplate this writing thing, my husband convinced me to attend my first writer’s conference. I was a new mother and had …
Vomit On A Plane: A Lesson in Perspective
My family and I recently traveled back to Central Oregon after an extended stay in New England. We had just boarded the plane for the second leg of our three-plane …
On the Virtues of Crying: A Graduation Speech
Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program Winter 2014, Freeport, Maine Thank you, Dean Tuchinsky, Justin, Annie, Robin, Stonecoast faculty and staff, friends, families, graduates and distinguished guests. I am so …
On the Lyric Essay
In preparation for my recent graduate student presentation on the lyric essay, I came across an array of interesting quotes and ideas about what, exactly, the lyric essay is. From …
$10,000 Sustainability Essay Prize Awarded
From creativenonfiction.org: Mary Heather Noble is the winner of the $10,000 first-place prize for Creative Nonfiction’s The Human Face of Sustainability essay contest, sponsored by Arizona State University’s Sustainability Solutions …
Some Things About Home: A Eulogy for Les
I’m going to ask you to close your eyes and clear your minds. Before I say what I want to say, I just want you to just take a moment …
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