The released website for Michele Heeney’s book collection is now live
Michele Heeney now has a live author’s website. This website can give readers biographical information about the author as well as information about how and where to buy the author’s book(s).
Michele has lived in Marin and Monterey counties of California, and also Maui, Hawaii. Michele now lives and writes in New Mexico. Her house is on the Cochiti reservation, just south of Santa Fe in the little town of Cochiti Lake.
After receiving her R.N. in Pennsylvania and moving to California, she expanded her career at UCSF studying OBGYN and becoming a Nurse Practitioner. The last fifteen years of her career were spent in Monterey County working with Mexican fam 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 park district of Monterey.
She was interviewed by CBS Radio’s host, Benji Cole. The interview in the program People of Distinction is about the discussion of the message of the book as well as the author’s purpose for writing this masterpiece. People of Distinction is one of the most wide-ranging radio shows in the United States. Benji Cole, the host of the program, is a world-class interviewer, video formulator, Los Angeles actor, and filmmaker. He’s shared the acting stage with superstar Tom Hanks.
Get to know more about the author and the work as you listen to the full interview below:
Her book collection is the following:
- My Paper Children
- The Polka Dot Chair
- Take Any Ship That Sails
- Keep The Change
- The Monkey Tree
“My Paper Children” is a book of photos and poems by Michele Heeney spanning 45 years, from the mountains of Western Pennsylvania to the sixties in San Francisco and beyond. It includes photos and poems from West Africa, Mexico, Hawaii, the central coast of California and New Mexico.
“The Polka Dot Chair” is Michele Heeney’s perspective and emotion are what lend such a special voice to her wide-ranging path. The book’s sections — Spirit, Love, Time, Nature, Art, Politics — are concerns never far from any of our minds.
“Take Any Ship That Sails” is a book of photos and poems by Michele Heeney spanning 45 years, from the mountains of Western Pennsylvania to the sixties in San Francisco and beyond. It includes photos and poems from West Africa, Mexico, Hawaii, the central coast of California and New Mexico.
“Keep The Change” is Michele Heeney’s second book of poems and photos. She has lived in Marin and Monterey counties of California, and also Maui, Hawaii. Michele now lives and writes in New Mexico. Her house is on the Cochiti Reservation, just south of Santa Fe, in the little town of Cochiti Lake.
“The Monkey Tree” is Michele Heeney’s third book of poems and photographs. Michele has lived in Marin and Monterey counties, California, and Maui, Hawaii. Michele now lives and writes in New Mexico. Her house is on the Cochiti reservation, just south of Santa Fe, in the little town of Cochiti Lake.
Explore Michele Heeney’s depiction of The Monkey Tree’s recurrent themes through poetry and photography, including obsession, oppression, love, suffering, loss, and one’s own persistent self.
In Heeney’s exploration of emotion, humor, grief, reflection, anger, and curiosity access the extraordinary and mundane—the monkey on everyone’s back. Buddhist philosophy is reflected in the diverse viewpoints and bemused detachment that temper the primacy of the human ego. This short work involves the reader both as an observer and participant.
In partnership with Author Reputation Press, Michele Heeney, author of “The Monkey Tree,” held a successful book signing event during the 2024 Los Angeles Festival of Books (LATFOB) at the University of Southern California. The Los Angeles Times held its much-awaited annual Festival of Books on April 20–21, 2024. The LATFOB is considered to be one of the world’s most significant literary gatherings. It has been held every year since 1996 with the goal of bringing together the people who create books and the people who love to read them. It is attended by more than 550 authors, celebrities, storytellers, and hundreds of exhibitors.
Visit Michele Heeney’s website at https://micheleheeney.com/.