April Tierney is a poet, craftswoman, mother, and lover of stories. Her work follows threads of ecopoetics, myth, culture, and lineage. She has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and featured in Orion Magazine, Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects, Clarion Poetry Magazine, and Real Ground Journal, among others. April guides both online and nature-based writing circles as well as seasonal art making workshops.

April is the author of four full length collections of poetry, Singing to the Bones (Fire Feeders Press, 2018), Origin Stories (Fire Feeders Press, 2020), Memory Keeper (Wayfarer Books, 2022) and Matter/Mother (Wayfarer Books, 2024). She is also a contributor in several anthologies, including Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher's Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration edited by Jamie K Reaser and J Drew Lanham (Talking Waters Press, 2023).

April is a collaborative artist at heart. She has read poetry alongside musicians, vocalists, painters, dancers, birth and death doulas, midwives and storytellers. She was the featured poet in the Fury of the Saints: Poetry and Trouble talks with Stephen Jenkinson and Gary Dillion in Victoria, British Columbia, and has spoken at length about the importance of artistry in our times, both through in-person events and online interviews.