The Polka Dot Chair - Heeney, Michele
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Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Michele Heeney found her outlook changed when the '60s lured her to San Francisco. Californian for many years after that, she also lived in Marin and Monterey Counties--as well as on Maui--before moving to New Mexico. She now makes her home in the town of Cochiti Lake on the Cochiti Pueblo reservation south of Santa Fe. Besides writing poetry, her loves include bicycling, shopping at thrift stores, and photography, which she began underwater in her years as a scuba diver.This is her fourth book of poetry.

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Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Michele Heeney found her outlook changed when the '60s lured her to San Francisco. Californian for many years after that, she also lived in Marin and Monterey Counties--as well as on Maui--before moving to New Mexico. She now makes her home in the town of Cochiti Lake on the Cochiti Pueblo reservation south of Santa Fe. Besides writing poetry, her loves include bicycling, shopping at thrift stores, and photography, which she began underwater in her years as a scuba diver.This is her fourth book of poetry.
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For decades, Michele's life centered around birth, in obstetrics and gynecology as a nurse practitioner. At the same time, her creativity was flourishing; "l was always taking pictures and writing poetry." Now that medical world has drifted into the past, the poetic and visual arts fill her time, producing images of beauty and head.After receiving her R.N. in Pennsylvania and moving to California, she expanded her career at UCSF studying OB-GYN and becoming a Nurse Practioner. The last fifteen years of her career was spent in Monterey County working with Mexican farm workers in the Salinas Valley.In addition to her professional work, nature filled her life at home on a 6,000 acre ranch at the north end of the Big Sur Wilderness where she was caretaker for the pad( district of Monterey.These are the links that shape her poems and travel over the years complete the chain; with the Peace Corps, learning Spanish in Costa Rica and Mexico, scuba diving the coasts of California, Hawaii, Fiji, and Micronesia. These are a few places that merge to feed Michele's imagination and gift for lyric imagery.