Nancy Hewitt's love of language, story and poetry evolved alongside her 35-year career as a clinical social worker. Her chapbook Heard was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review (Editor's Prize), Mid-American Review, Connecticut River Review, Phoebe Journal, Halcyone Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Ellipsis and other journals. Her chapbook This Slanted Scene was a finalist for The Poetry Box award in 2019. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and was the first Poet Laureate of Swampscott, MA. She finds inspiration in the Vermont countryside, in art and in travel.
