MICHELE HEENEY

For decades, Michele’s life centered around birth, in obstetrics and gynecology as a nurse practitioner. At the same time, her creativity was flourishing; “I was always taking pictures and writing poetry.”

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Now that medical world has drifted into the past, the poetic and visual arts fill her time, producing images of beauty and heart.

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After receiving her R.N. in Pennsylvania and moving to California, she expanded her career at UCSF studying OB-GYN and becoming a Nurse Practitioner. The last fifteen years of her career was spent in Monterey County working with Mexican farm workers in the Salinas Valley.

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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 park district of Monterey.

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These are the links that shape her poems and travel over the years complete the chain; West Africa 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.