Heather Lang-Cassera

Heather Lang-Cassera is an author and artist. She served as the 2019-2021 Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate, was a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow, and was named 2017 Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. She is the Black Fox Literary Magazine poetry editor, is a Raleigh Review editorial team member, and served as a Clay Arts Vegas substitute instructor. At Nevada State University, she teaches poetry, professional editing, and more. Lang-Cassera is the author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021) and Firefall (Unsolicited Press, 2025), both of which were written with the support of Nevada Arts Council grants. Her ceramics have been included in exhibitions at the Charleston Heights Art Gallery, Clark County Wetlands, Grand Gallery in Las Vegas City Hall, Sahara West Library, Art 321 in Casper, Wyoming, and elsewhere. Her photography has been featured on small-press book covers and included in exhibitions at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery, Rotunda Gallery at the Clark County Government Center, and Winchester Dondero Cultural Center.